Patents by Inventor Masaki Kobayashi

Masaki 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).

  • Patent number: 8992249
    Abstract: A shielded connector includes device-side connector which is fixed to a shield case and a cable-side connector which is attached to an end of an external cable and is fitted to the device-side connector. The device-side connector includes a device-side connection terminal, a device-side resin housing, and a device-side shield shell. The device-side shield shell includes a mating shell fixing part which electrically connects the device-side shield shell and a cable-side shield shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Kobayashi, Norio Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20150075459
    Abstract: A variable valve timing control unit includes an intake-side variable valve timing control apparatus, an exhaust-side variable valve timing control apparatus, an intake-side phase control valve selectively performing supply and discharge of fluid relative to an advanced angle fluid passage and a retarded angle fluid passage of the intake-side variable valve timing control apparatus, an exhaust-side phase control valve selectively performing supply and discharge of the fluid relative to the advanced angle fluid passage and the retarded angle fluid passage of the exhaust-side variable valve timing control apparatus, and a single lock control valve controlling supply and discharge of the fluid relative to unlock fluid passages of the respective intake-side variable valve timing control apparatus and the exhaust-side variable valve timing control apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki KOBAYASHI, Masaaki KANEKO
  • Patent number: 8975538
    Abstract: A wall-mounted housing apparatus includes: a rear case (10); a front cover (20); and a retaining mechanism including a fixed engagement portion (41) and a movable engagement portion (46). The movable engagement portion (46) includes a slidable slide bar (462). The slide bar (462) includes a bar main body (462a) slidable in an apparatus height direction (H), which is the direction when the front cover (20) is closed, and a portion (462b) to be supported. When the front cover (20) is opened upward at an angle larger than 90°, the slide bar (462) slides down due to its weight, and then, when the front cover (20) is closed at 90°, the portion (462b) to be supported is supported by a support surface (412b) of the fixed engagement portion (41). In such a way, the front cover (20) is retained in a state of being opened at 90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation
    Inventor: Masaki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20150059669
    Abstract: A variable valve timing control device includes a driving side rotation member, a driven side rotation member, a control valve controlling a supply and draining of an operation fluid to and from a fluid pressure chamber to change a relative rotational phase of the driven side rotation member relative to the driving side rotation member, an intermediate member positioned inwardly of the driven side rotation member between the driven side rotation member and a camshaft, the intermediate member including the control valve inwardly thereof; and a torsion spring retained by the driving side rotation member and the intermediate member to bias the driving side rotation member and the driven side rotation member either in a first rotation direction or a second rotation direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshiaki YAMAKAWA, Masaki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20150059670
    Abstract: A variable valve timing control device includes a driving side rotation member, a driven side rotation member, a fluid pressure chamber, a first flow path and a second flow path allowing a flow of an operation fluid into and out of the fluid pressure chamber, an intermediate member being provided between an inner circumferential surface of the driven side rotation member and an outer circumferential surface of a camshaft, and a contact portion where the intermediate member and the driven side rotation member come in contact with each other at a position between the first flow path and the second flow path when mounting the intermediate member to the camshaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro KAWAI, Masaki Kobayashi, Yoshiaki Yamakawa, Atsushi Otsuki
  • Patent number: 8967102
    Abstract: Provided is a valve timing control device, including a drive side rotating member, a driven side rotating member, and a locking mechanism, in which the locking mechanism includes a regulating body, and n stepped portions with which the regulating body engages, the relative rotation phase is regulated in steps from a most retarded phase or most advanced phase until reaching the lock phase, and the positional relationship between the stepped portions and regulating body is set so that, among relative rotations of from a first relative rotation of from the most retarded phase or most advanced phase to a first relative rotation phase regulated by a first stepped portion to a last relative rotation to a last relative rotation, a first predetermined relative rotation other than the last relative rotation is the smallest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Kobayashi, Kenji Nonaka, Shohei Masuda
  • Publication number: 20150053158
    Abstract: A variable valve timing control apparatus includes a driving-side rotation member, a driven-side rotation member, an intermediate lock mechanism including first and second lock members, first and second recess portions, and a guide groove, a sensor, and a control portion. The control portion performs a control so that the relative rotation phase is changed until a first stop state is established in a state where the relative rotation phase is in an unlocked state and one of the first and second lock members is positioned relative to one of the first and second recess portions at which the guide groove is formed at a side opposite from a side where the guide groove is formed. The control portion reverses a change direction of the relative rotation phase after the first stop state is established so that the relative rotation phase is changed until a second stop state is established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masaki KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 8961209
    Abstract: To provide a technique by which an accumulated tolerance caused by the arrangement of terminal fittings is eliminated to improve the workability in a multipole cell-voltage detection connector. When all of receptacle terminals (94) are inserted into receptacle insertion groove parts (22), each of the receptacle terminals (94) is buckled at a bending hole (97) and a mark-off part (98) formed as a boundary of a receptacle root part (95) and a receptacle front part (96). Because the receptacle insertion groove parts (22) are formed in a state where there is substantially no tolerance, the terminal pitch tolerance correction housing (10) is fitted to receptacle units (90), and the receptacle terminals (94) (receptacle front parts (96)) protruded from the receptacle insertion groove parts (22) toward a bottom inner surface (15) are corrected to a state where there is no tolerance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Kobayashi, Kimiharu Mizusaki, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Toshiaki Ariyoshi
  • Patent number: 8960142
    Abstract: A valve opening-closing timing control apparatus includes a partition portion partitioning a fluid pressure chamber into an advanced angle chamber and a retarded angle chamber, a phase control portion controlling a rotational phase of a driven-side rotational member relative to a driving-side rotational member, a lock mechanism including a lock member and a lock recess for locking the rotational phase at a predetermined phase, a lock control portion switching the lock mechanism between a locked state and an unlocked state by supplying and discharging a pressurized fluid to and from the lock recess, a phase controlling supply passage supplying the pressurized fluid to the advanced angle chamber and the retarded angle chamber, a lock controlling supply passage supplying the pressurized fluid to the lock recess, and a one-way valve blocking the pressurized fluid supplied to the lock controlling supply passage from flowing into the phase controlling supply passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoto Toma, Shigemitsu Suzuki, Hiroki Mukaide, Masaki Kobayashi, Kazuo Ueda
  • Patent number: 8955480
    Abstract: Provided is a timing adjustment system having improved control for achieving a target rotational phase. The valve timing adjustment system includes a displacement mechanism unit that displaces a rotational phase of a camshaft relative to a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine; a locking mechanism unit that locks the rotational phase at an intermediate locked phase positioned within a displacement range of the rotational phase; a hydraulic pathway that hydraulically drives the displacement mechanism unit and the locking mechanism unit; and a control unit including a control system that controls operations of the hydraulic control valve. The control unit changes a temporal responsiveness of the control system based on a displacement force that displaces the rotational phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Kokubo, Yuji Kakuda, Kenji Ikeda, Yuuki Ohta, Masaki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20150034033
    Abstract: A variable valve timing control device includes a driving side rotation member configured to synchronously rotating with a crankshaft, a driven side rotation member positioned coaxially to the driving side rotation member and integrally rotating with a camshaft, an intermediate lock mechanism selectively switching a locked state and an unlocked state, a first electromagnetic valve arranged at a position coaxial to the driving side rotation member and for controlling an supply and draining of an operation fluid relative to the fluid pressure chamber, a second electromagnetic valve positioned being offset from the position coaxial to the driving side rotation member and for controlling a supply and draining of the operation fluid flowing from the camshaft to the intermediate lock mechanism separately from the first electromagnetic valve, and a pump supplying the operation fluid to the first electromagnetic valve and the second electromagnetic valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki KOBAYASHI, Yoshihiro KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20150033907
    Abstract: A variable valve timing control apparatus includes a driving-side rotation member rotating in synchronization with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, a driven-side rotation member integrally rotating with a camshaft of the internal combustion engine, an intermediate lock mechanism being selectively switchable between a locked state and an unlocked state, a plurality of hydraulic chambers, at least one of the plurality of hydraulic chambers being positioned at a lower side than an axis of the camshaft, a plurality of partition portions, each of the plurality of partition portions dividing each of the hydraulic chambers into an advanced angle chamber and a retarded angle chamber, an electromagnetic valve including a supply and discharge port that is positioned at an upper side than the axis of the camshaft and switching supply and discharge of fluid relative to the hydraulic chambers, and a pump supplying fluid to the electromagnetic valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideomi IYANAGA, Masaki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20150010759
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heat dissipating coating composition in a liquid or paste form for application to a heat generating article, comprising an infrared absorbing binder resin (A), infrared absorbing inorganic particles (B), and an organic solvent, having such proportions of the component (A) and the component (B) that the component (A) is 10 to 70 vol % and the component (B) is 90 to 30 vol % based on the total of both components being 100 vol %, and satisfying conditions 1, 2, and 3 specified herein, and also provides a heat dissipating coating film obtained by applying the heat dissipating coating composition to a heat dissipating article and then thermally curing the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Eiji Iwamura, Masaki Kobayashi, Yasutaka Morozumi, Naoya Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20150005507
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a crystal and a crystal of (S)-4-[5-(3,5-dichlorophenyl)-5-(trifluoromethyl)-4,5-dihydroisoxazol-3-yl]-2-methyl-N-[2-oxo-2-(2,2,2-trifluoroethylamino)ethyl]benzamide and a method for manufacturing the crystal. It is elucidated that (S)-4-[5-(3,5-dichlorophenyl)-5-(trifluoromethyl)-4,5-dihydroisoxazol-3-yl]-2-methyl-N-[2-oxo-2-(2,2,2-trifluoroethylamino)ethyl]benzamide that has a crystalline polymorph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Kazutaka MATOBA, Takeshi MITA, Kotatsu MATSUBARA, Takahiro KAGAMI, Kunimitsu NAKAHIRA, Masaki KOBAYASHI, Hotaka IMANAKA, Rika MIYACHI, Masashi OHNO
  • Patent number: 8919310
    Abstract: Provided is a valve open/close timing control device including, a drive-side rotating body, a driven-side rotating body, a fluid pressure chamber, a partition portion, a fluid control valve part, a first locking mechanism which is capable of restraining a relative rotational phase of the driven-side rotating body relative to the drive-side rotating body at a first predetermined phase between a most retarded angle phase and a most advanced angle phase, and a second locking mechanism which is capable of restraining the relative rotational phase at a second predetermined phase on a more retarded angle side than the first predetermined phase, in which the relative rotational phase is changed to the first predetermined phase when a shift lever position is changed to a parking range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Kobayashi, Kazunari Adachi, Kazuo Ueda
  • Patent number: 8915222
    Abstract: A variable valve timing control apparatus includes a driving side rotation member, a driven side rotation member positioned coaxially with a rotational axis of the driving side rotation member, at least one plate, a plurality of partition portions forming a fluid chamber between the partition portions, a vane portion being fitted to the fluid chamber to relatively rotate the driving side rotation member and the driven side rotation member within a movable range thereof, a restriction mechanism for restricting a relative rotational phase, a fastening member fixing the plate and the partition portion of the driving side rotation member, and a reinforcement member engaged with the partition portion including a contact surface among the partition portions, the contact surface being configured to receive a contact of the vane portion when the relative rotational phase is either at a most retarded angle phase or a most advanced angle phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Kobayashi, Kenji Nonaka, Yoshihiro Kawai
  • Publication number: 20140370753
    Abstract: The male shielded connector of the invention includes terminals which are connected to end portions of electric wires, a housing which contains the terminals, a shield shell which covers the housing, a braided conductor which is externally provided to the wire and is covered on the shield shell, and a shield ring which is swaged to the outer circumference of the braided conductor to fix the braided conductor in a state that the braided conductor is electrically connected to the shield shell, the shield ring being made of a metal material. An insulation layer is provided between the braided conductor and the shield ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Masaki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20140350350
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus includes, an unit (12) extracting a blood vessel wall region from the image in a range including an aneurysm in an object, an unit (13) calculating the blood vessel diameter change rates of the neck portions of the aneurysm, blood vessel curvature, and blood vessel flattening ratio at each of discrete points on a blood vessel region based on the extracted blood vessel region, an unit (14) extracting, from discrete points, feature points at each of which at least one of a blood vessel diameter change rate, blood vessel curvature, and blood vessel flattening ratio exceeds a corresponding one of thresholds and decide a range for the indwelling of a stent graft in accordance with the extracted feature points, and a display unit (19) superimposing and display unrecommended ranges on a stored image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo IMAGAWA, Ryuji ZAIKI, Takayuki ISHIKAWA, Masaki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20140347790
    Abstract: A wall-mounted housing apparatus includes: a rear case (10); a front cover (20); and a retaining mechanism including a fixed engagement portion (41) and a movable engagement portion (46). The movable engagement portion (46) includes a slidable slide bar (462). The slide bar (462) includes a bar main body (462a) slidable in an apparatus height direction (H), which is the direction when the front cover (20) is closed, and a portion (462b) to be supported. When the front cover (20) is opened upward at an angle larger than 90°, the slide bar (462) slides down due to its weight, and then, when the front cover (20) is closed at 90°, the portion (462b) to be supported is supported by a support surface (412b) of the fixed engagement portion (41). In such a way, the front cover (20) is retained in a state of being opened at 90°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: NEC INFRONTIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: D724493
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Masaki Kobayashi