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: 10337363
    Abstract: A valve opening and closing timing control apparatus includes a driving-side rotating body, a driven-side rotating body fixed to a camshaft by a bolt, a fluid pressure chamber, an intermediate lock mechanism, a lock flow passage bringing the working fluid to the intermediate lock mechanism, and an electromagnetic valve including a spool which is arranged at an inner portion of the bolt, the lock flow passage including a first flow passage which is arranged between the spool and a supply flow passage in a radial direction and which is connected to the supply flow passage, the lock flow passage including a second flow passage which is provided at the inner portion of the bolt in a penetrating manner in the radial direction and which brings the working fluid to flow between the spool and the intermediate lock mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Yamakawa, Masaki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20190199838
    Abstract: Provided is an instantaneous-interruption prevention device and a telephone that can more effectively prevent instantaneous interruption of a call due to an impact. The instantaneous-interruption prevention device includes a latch part that operates so as to come into contact with a hook button of a telephone when receiving an impact, and the latch part stops motion of the hook button by coming into contact with the hook button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyota KUBO, Masaki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190160780
    Abstract: An object is to realize a base material nonwoven fabric for molding excellent in handling as a material, by preventing peeling between laminated components constituting the base material for molding; and even after the base material is reheated and molded, to provide a molded product having excellent elasticity resistant to external forces such as flying debris or the like, and while maintaining peeling resistance, capable of realizing excellent sound absorbing characteristics, by suppressing air permeability inhibition due to the adhesive component. A base material nonwoven fabric for molding in a predetermined shape by heat molding, characterized by having a two-layer structure of a long fiber nonwoven fabric layer comprising at least a polyester resin and a short fiber nonwoven fabric layer comprising a polyester resin, wherein a flow-solidified undrawn polypropylene layer is localized in the vicinity of an interface between the long fiber nonwoven fabric layer and the short fiber nonwoven fabric layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: JAPAN VILENE COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Masaki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190153910
    Abstract: A valve opening/closing timing control device is configured to implement controlling of a relative rotation phase and controlling of a lock mechanism by means of a small control valve. The valve opening/closing timing control device includes a first valve whose position is switched electromagnetically and a second valve whose position is switched by a fluid pressure controlled by the first valve. The second valve is constituted of at least one of a phase control valve that controls the relative rotation phase by providing an advance chamber or a retard chamber with an operating fluid from a fluid pressure pump and a lock control valve that controls a lock state of the lock mechanism by controlling the operating fluid from the fluid pressure pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeo ASAHI, Yuji NOGUCHI, Masaki KOBAYASHI, Yoshiaki YAMAKAWA, Hiromitsu SHIGYO
  • Publication number: 20190062344
    Abstract: To provide novel pesticides, especially insecticides or acaricides. A condensed heterocyclic compound represented by the formula (1) or its salt, or N-oxide thereof: wherein Q is a structure represented by Q1, Q2 or the like, D substituted with —S(O)n R1 is a structure represented by D1 or D2, A1 is N(A1 a) or the like, A1 a is C1-C6 alkyl or the like, A4 is a nitrogen atom or C(R4), A5 is a nitrogen atom or C(R5), R1 is C1-C6 alkyl or the like, each of R2, R5 and R6 is independently a hydrogen atom or C1-C6 alkyl, each of R3, R4, Y1, Y2, Y3 and Y4 is independently a halogen atom, halo (C1-C6) alkyl or the like, and n is an integer of 0, 1 or 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: NISSAN CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takao KUDO, Keisuke TSUJI, Kenkichi NOTO, Yukihiro MAIZURU, Hiroto MATSUI, Masaki KOBAYASHI, Hotaka IMANAKA
  • Publication number: 20190033764
    Abstract: The image forming apparatus determines, based on a determination value calculated by a calculating unit, a light amount of reflection light from a first position on an image bearing member from light amounts of reflection light beams from a second position and a third position on the image bearing member where a patch image is not formed in a state where the patch image is formed at the first position on the image bearing member, or determines the light amount of reflection light from the first position on the image bearing member by detecting the light amount of reflection light from the first position on the image bearing member with a detecting unit in a state where the patch image is not formed at the first position on the image bearing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventor: Masaki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10161273
    Abstract: A valve opening and closing timing control apparatus includes a driving-side rotational body, a driven-side rotational body, a cylindrical member provided at an inner portion of the driven-side rotational body, a bolt including a cylinder shaft portion, an advanced angle flow passage and a retarded angle flow passage, an introduction passage bringing the working fluid supplied from an outside to flow, a first connection passage bringing the working fluid at the introduction passage to flow to an inner side of the cylinder shaft portion, a second communication passage and a third communication passage arranged at the cylinder shaft portion, and a control valve element provided at the inner side of the cylinder shaft portion, the second communication passage and the advanced angle flow passage being in communication with a void provided between the bolt head and the cylindrical member and between the cylinder shaft portion and the driven-side rotational body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeo Asahi, Yuji Noguchi, Toru Sakakibara, Masaki Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Kawai, Hiromitsu Shigyo, Hideyuki Suganuma
  • Publication number: 20180361763
    Abstract: A roll body supporting device that rotatably supports a roll body includes a shaft member inserted into a core of the roll body, a shaft outer circumference member fixed to an outer circumference of the shaft member, a core support member that is inwardly in contact with and fits on the core, and a rotation support section that connects the shaft outer circumference member to the core support member and supports the core support member in a manner to be rotatable about the shaft member relative to the shaft outer circumference member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventor: Masaki KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10087791
    Abstract: A valve opening/closing timing control apparatus includes: a driving side rotational body synchronously rotating with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine; a driven side rotational body arranged in the driving side rotational body to share a rotational axis therewith and integrally rotating with a camshaft; advanced angle and retarded angle chambers defined between the driving side and driven side rotational bodies; a lock mechanism maintaining a relative rotational phase between the driving side and driven side rotational bodies by separately biasing first and second lock members to be engaged with first and second recesses; and a fluid controller releasing the locked state by supplying a hydraulic fluid to the first and second recesses, and controlling the relative rotational phase by supplying and discharging the hydraulic fluid to the advanced angle and retarded angle chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Kobayashi, Shohei Masuda
  • Publication number: 20180274398
    Abstract: A variable valve timing control device includes a valve unit including a spool having a plurality of land portions at an outer circumference of the spool, and being formed with a drain flow path inside the spool. The valve unit allows a second pump port and a lock port to communicate with each other in a case where the spool is set at an unlock position where a lock state of a lock mechanism is released, and the valve unit closes the second pump port with the land portion of the spool and allows the lock port to communicate with the drain flow path in a case where the spool is set at a lock position where the lock mechanism is allowed to be shifted in the lock state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiaki YAMAKAWA, Masaki KOBAYASHI, Hiromitsu SHIGYO
  • Publication number: 20180236795
    Abstract: The printing apparatus includes a supply section that supports a plurality of rolls into which roll-paper strips are wound and supplies the roll-paper strips, a transport section that applies respective transporting forces to the supplied roll-paper strips and transports the roll-paper strips, a printing section that performs printing onto the transported roll-paper strips, and a tension-imparting section that individually imparts respective tensile forces to a plurality of roll-paper strips against the transporting forces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Yoji TAKAHASHI, Masaki KOBAYASHI, Junya KATO, Yoshikazu HAMA
  • Publication number: 20180156080
    Abstract: A valve opening/closing timing control device includes: a driving side rotator synchronously rotating with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine; a driven side rotator coaxially disposed with a rotation axis of the driving side rotator and integrally rotating with a valve opening/closing camshaft; advance and retard chambers formed between the driving side and driven side rotators; a lock mechanism including a lock member capable of engaging with a recessed portion on one of the driving side and driven side rotators and provided in the other of the driving side and driven side rotators; and a connecting bolt coaxially disposed with the rotation axis and connecting the driven side rotator to the camshaft. The connecting bolt includes an internal space, and an advance port, a retard port and a lock port are formed as through-holes, a valve unit accommodates a spool, and the spool includes an internal flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiaki YAMAKAWA, Masaki KOBAYASHI, Yusuke
  • Publication number: 20180156079
    Abstract: A valve opening/closing timing control device includes: a driving side rotator synchronously rotating with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine; a driven side rotator coaxially disposed with a rotation axis of the driving side rotator and integrally rotating with a valve opening/closing camshaft; advance and retard chambers formed between the driving side and driven side rotators; a lock mechanism including a lock member capable of engaging with a recessed portion formed on one of the driving side and driven side rotators, and provided in the other of the driving side and driven side rotators; and a connecting bolt coaxially disposed with the rotation axis and connecting the driven side rotator to the camshaft, in which the connecting bolt includes an internal space, a valve unit accommodates a spool, and the spool includes an internal flow path, and, in the spool, a lock holding check valve is disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiaki YAMAKAWA, Masaki KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9958076
    Abstract: A flow passage partition structure including a flow passage member including a flow passage space portion, a partition member partitioning the flow passage space portion into a first flow passage and a second flow passage, the partition member including a first plate and a second plate being in contact with the first plate in a state where the second plate is press-fitted in an inner circumferential surface of the flow passage space portion, the first plate including an outer circumferential surface that is out of contact with the inner circumferential surface of the flow passage space portion, and the first plate, the second plate, and the inner circumferential surface of the flow passage space portion forming a space portion that corresponds to a foreign material storage portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Kobayashi, Yoshiaki Yamakawa, Hiromitsu Shigyo
  • Publication number: 20180100043
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin sheet having both high strength and moldability, to provide a unidirectional prepreg from which such a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin sheet can be acquired, and to provide a manufacturing method of a unidirectional prepreg. The present invention relates to a unidirectional prepreg having a tape shape comprising: spread reinforcement fibers; and a polymer of a bisphenol A type epoxy compound represented by Formula (1): [where n is an integer of 1 to 4] and a bisphenol compound selected from the group consisting of bisphenol A, bisphenol F, bisphenol S, bisphenol B, bisphenol E, and bisphenol P, wherein the polymer has a weight-average molecular weight of 5,000 to 25,000, and wherein the average content number of the reinforcement fibers in a thickness direction of the unidirectional prepreg is ten or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Applicant: Suncorona Oda Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu TAKASHIMA, Toshiaki KARASAWA, Masaki KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9920463
    Abstract: Provided is a fiber sheet for molding, characterized in that a print resin is applied on the surface of the fiber sheet containing highly crimped fibers, and the amount of the print resin is 30 g/m2 or less, and the air permeability of the fiber sheet is 5 to 30 cm3/cm2/sec. The fiber sheet for molding can be molded without generating wrinkles, and has a good sound absorbing property. When a pattern is formed with the printing resin, the fiber sheet for molding is also excellent in design properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: JAPAN VILENE COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Kobayashi, Takashi Tokiwa
  • Patent number: 9903235
    Abstract: A valve timing control apparatus includes: a drive-side rotational member synchronously rotating with a drive shaft of an internal combustion engine; a driven-side rotational member disposed inside the drive-side rotational member and integrally rotating with a valve opening/closing camshaft; a hydrostatic pressure chamber formed by partitioning a space between the drive-side rotational and driven-side rotational members; an advance angle chamber and a retardation angle chamber formed by dividing the hydrostatic pressure chamber; an intermediate lock mechanism able to selectively switch between locked and unlocked states; an advance angle flow path allowing the hydraulic fluid to be circulated; a retardation angle flow path allowing the hydraulic fluid to be circulated; a control valve having a spool; and a phase control unit controlling the control valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Mukaide, Naoto Toma, Yoshiaki Yamakawa, Masaki Kobayashi, Takeshi Hayashi, Hiroyuki Amano
  • Publication number: 20180051599
    Abstract: A valve opening and closing timing control apparatus includes a drive-side rotational body, a driven-side rotational body, an intermediate lock mechanism which selectively switches between a lock state where displacement of a relative rotational phase of the driven-side rotational body relative to the drive-side rotational body is restrained in an intermediate lock phase and an unlock state where the lock state is released, and an electromagnetic valve. At a time of predetermined operation of an internal combustion engine, a value of the drive current is set as a boundary current, and the value of the drive current to be set as the boundary current differs, by a predetermined value, from a value of the drive current at a time when the unlock state was switched to the lock state due to the change of the drive current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki AMANO, Masaki KOBAYASHI, Yoshiaki YAMAKAWA
  • Patent number: 9898574
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for determining presence of a disease, comprising steps of; measuring the levels of expression of transcription products of genes in a biological sample obtained from a subject suspected of having a target disease, wherein the genes comprise at least one gene belonging to each of at least two disease-determining gene families related to the target disease; obtaining values representing deviations by standardizing the levels of the expression based on the levels of expression of transcription products of the corresponding genes in a plurality of healthy subjects; obtaining the average of values representing deviations with respect to the gene belonging to each of the disease-determining gene families; and determining whether or not the subject has the target disease by using the average; as well as a computer program product for determining presence of a disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Sysmex Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichiro Yoshida, Masaki Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20180022760
    Abstract: To provide novel pesticides, especially insecticides or acaricides. A condensed heterocyclic compound represented by the formula (1) or its salt or an N-oxide thereof: wherein D substituted with —S(O)nR1 is a ring represented by any one of D1, D2 and D3, Q is a ring represented by any one of Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4, R1 is C1-C6 alkyl, C1-C6 haloalkyl, (C1-C6) alkyl optionally substituted with R1a, C2-C6 alkenyl, C2-C6 haloalkenyl, C2-C6 alkynyl, C2-C6 haloalkynyl, C3-C6 cycloalkyl, C3-C6 halocycloalkyl, C3-C6 cycloalkyl (C1-C6) alkyl, C3-C6 halocycloalkyl (C1-C6) alkyl or hydroxy (C1-C6) alkyl, R1a is C1-C8 alkoxycarbonyl, and n is an integer of 0, 1 or 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao KUDO, Yukihiro MAIZURU, Ayano TANAKA, Kenkichi NOTO, Hiroto MATSUI, Masaki KOBAYASHI