Patents by Inventor Masanori Kobayashi

Masanori 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).

  • Publication number: 20220220793
    Abstract: A connecting fitting (20A) for connecting two construction materials includes a first connecting member (21) and a second connecting member (22) for connecting the construction materials, and a parallelizing means (45) having a parallelizing function of aligning the connecting members (21, 22) in a first direction and making them parallel or almost parallel to each other. The first direction is a direction perpendicular to both the direction (M) of an interval between the two construction materials and the thickness direction of one construction material. The parallelizing function of the parallelizing means (45) disappears due to a load caused to act on at least one of the connecting members (21, 22). The inclination angles of the connecting members (21, 22) with respect to the direction (M) of the interval become inclination angles (?1, ?2) opposite to each other due to the disappearance of the parallelizing function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Masanori KOBAYASHI, Shigeo YAMAGAMI, Katsuhiko MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20220205310
    Abstract: A connecting device configured to connect two construction materials arranged at a distance therebetween, that is, a door frame, a base member, and a reinforcing member of a wall includes a connecting member including a locking portion capable of being locked with a locking target member arranged at one construction material along a thickness direction perpendicular to a direction of the distance and a coupling portion configured to be moved in the thickness direction and coupled to the other construction material by a drill screw as a coupling fitting are arranged at an end on a side of the one construction material and an end on a side of the other construction material. When the coupling portion is not coupled to the other construction material, the locking portion is movable in the thickness direction with respect to the locking target member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Shigeo YAMAGAMI, Masanori KOBAYASHI, Takayuki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20220155166
    Abstract: A pressure sensor configured to prevent tearing or cracking of an insulating film for insulating between a stem and a detection circuit from occurring. A stem having a planar outer bottom surface, an outer side surface intersecting the outer bottom surface, and a pressure receiving inner surface that is the opposite surface to the outer bottom surface and receives pressure from a fluid to be measured; and a detection circuit provided to the outer bottom surface with an insulating film interposed therebetween. The stem has a foot part that: is formed to surround the outer bottom surface; consists of a surface which, when observed parallel to the outer bottom surface, faces a direction different from the direction of the outer bottom surface and the outer side surface; and connects between the outer bottom surface and the outer side surface. The insulating film covers a portion of the foot part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori KOBAYASHI, Ken UNNO
  • Publication number: 20220153991
    Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition includes: a polycarbonate resin (I); a specific graft copolymer (II); a vinyl copolymer (III); an inorganic filler (IV); and a phosphate ester compound (V). The vinyl-based copolymer (III) has a weight average molecular weight of 110,000 or less. A ratio of a melt flow rate of the vinyl-based copolymer (III) to a melt flow rate of the polycarbonate resin (I) is 7 or more and 12 or less. A blending amount of the phosphoric acid ester-based compound (V) is 1 to 10 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of a total amount of (I) to (IV).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi Ueda, Masanori Kobayashi, Daisuke Sato
  • Publication number: 20220084724
    Abstract: A cable includes a cable core including one or more electric wires, a shield layer covering around the cable core, and a sheath covering around the shield layer. The shield layer is composed of a braided shield including a plurality of first metal wires composed of aluminum or aluminum alloy and a plurality of second metal wires composed of copper or copper alloy. The plurality of first metal wires and the plurality of second metal wires are cross-braided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Detian HUANG, Yoshinori TSUKAMOTO, Masanori KOBAYASHI, Masashi MORIYAMA, Koji FUKUZATO
  • Publication number: 20220076861
    Abstract: A cable includes a cable core including a linear filler, and a plurality of core wires for signal transmission, a shield layer covering around the cable core, and a sheath covering around the shield layer. The filler includes a first filler provided at a cable center, and a plurality of second fillers provided around the first filler to form a cross-shape with the first filler in a cross-section perpendicular to a cable longitudinal direction. The cable corethe cable core is configured in such a manner that the plurality of core wires and the plurality of second fillers are spirally twisted around the first filler to be alternately arranged in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Masashi Moriyama, Detian Huang, Yoshinori Tsukamoto, Masanori Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11236740
    Abstract: Sealed container (102) houses electric unit (110) equipped with stator (114) and a rotor (116), and compression unit (112) disposed above electric unit (110). Compression unit (112) includes shaft (118) that includes main shaft portion (120) and eccentric shaft portion (122), and cylinder block (124). Compression unit (112) further includes connection portion (136) that connects piston (128) reciprocatively inserted into cylinder (130) and eccentric shaft portion (122), and a thrust bearing that supports a load of shaft (118) in a vertical direction. The thrust bearing includes an upper race in contact with a flange portion of shaft (118), a lower race in contact with a thrust surface of cylinder block (124), and a rolling element. An overall height of sealed container (102) is sized not to exceed a length six times larger than a diameter of piston (128).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC APPLIANCES REFRIGERATION DEVICES SINGAPORE
    Inventors: Ko Inagaki, Masanori Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Kawano
  • Publication number: 20210348808
    Abstract: A refrigerant compressor includes: a sealed container in which refrigerating machine oil is stored; an electric element accommodated in the sealed container and driven by electric power supplied from outside; and a compression element accommodated in the sealed container and covered with the refrigerating machine oil, the compression element being driven by the electric element to compress refrigerant gas supplied from outside. The refrigerating machine oil contains an oil film shortage adjusting agent in a dissolved state in such a concentration that deposition of the oil film shortage adjusting agent does not occur at least while the refrigerant compressor is operating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Masanori KOBAYASHI, Yoshinori ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20210333216
    Abstract: A solid immersion lens unit includes a solid immersion lens having a contact surface for coming into contact with semiconductor device formed of a silicon substrate and a spherical surface to be disposed to face an objective lens; a holder holding the solid immersion lens; and an optical element held by the holder to be positioned between the objective lens and the solid immersion lens. The solid immersion lens transmits light having at least a part of wavelength in a range of 200 nm or greater and 1100 nm or lower. The optical element corrects aberration caused by a difference in refractive indices between the silicon substrate and the solid immersion lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Xiangguang MAO, Masanori KOBAYASHI, Hirotoshi TERADA, Ikuo ARATA, Masataka IKESU
  • Patent number: 11049630
    Abstract: A multicore cable is composed of a bunched core composed of a plurality of electric wires laid together, each including a conductor, and an electrical insulating member provided over a periphery of the conductor, an abrasion suppressing layer configured as a taping member helically wrapped around a periphery of the bunched core, a shielding layer composed of a braided shield provided over an outer periphery of the abrasion suppressing layer, and a sheath provided over a periphery of the shielding layer. An opposite surface of the taping member constituting the abrasion suppressing layer to the bunched core and an opposite surface of the taping member constituting the abrasion suppressing layer to the shielding layer are composed of a fluoropolymer resin. The taping member constituting the abrasion suppressing layer is non-adhesively lap wound in such a manner as to partially overlap itself in a width direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Detian Huang, Yoshinori Tsukamoto, Masanori Kobayashi, Masashi Moriyama
  • Publication number: 20210150004
    Abstract: A control device includes a storage unit that stores an authentication ledger, an authorization ledger, operation information, and operation recording target information. An authentication management unit, in a case of receiving authentication information from one information processing device, performs an authentication determination. An authorization unit determines whether to authorize the processing request of the one information processing device with the authorization ledger. An execution authorization unit, in a case in which the processing request authorized is a request for changing an operation state of the device, determines whether to authorize an execution of the processing request from the operation information, and, in a case of authorizing, causes the control execution unit to execute the processing request, and, in a case of not authorizing, transmits an error response to the one information processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Hirotoshi WATANABE, Masanori KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210151221
    Abstract: A multicore cable is composed of a bunched core composed of a plurality of electric wires laid together, each including a conductor, and an electrical insulating member provided over a periphery of the conductor, an abrasion suppressing layer configured as a taping member helically wrapped around a periphery of the bunched core, a shielding layer composed of a braided shield provided over an outer periphery of the abrasion suppressing layer, and a sheath provided over a periphery of the shielding layer. An opposite surface of the taping member constituting the abrasion suppressing layer to the bunched core and an opposite surface of the taping member constituting the abrasion suppressing layer to the shielding layer are composed of a fluoropolymer resin. The taping member constituting the abrasion suppressing layer is non-adhesively lap wound in such a manner as to partially overlap itself in a width direction thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Detian HUANG, Yoshinori TSUKAMOTO, Masanori KOBAYASHI, Masashi MORIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11011286
    Abstract: A cable includes a plurality of electric wires, which are laid helically around a center of the cable and along a central axis of the cable, and a sheath provided to cover respective peripheries of the plurality of electric wires together. The sheath includes an inner layer sheath made of a urethane resin, and an outer layer sheath provided around an outer periphery of the inner layer sheath to protect the inner layer sheath. The cable may further include a core member at its center. The sheath may be composed of a single layer instead of plural layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Detian Huang, Yoshinori Tsukamoto, Masanori Kobayashi, Masashi Moriyama, Isao Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20210140225
    Abstract: A first end portion of a connecting part of a connecting member reaches a locked member arranged such that the thickness direction of one of two construction materials is an axial direction N, and a second end portion of the connecting part reaches the other one of the two construction materials. The second end portion is formed to have a torsion angle ? as an inclination angle to the axial direction N. When the second end portion is coupled with the other construction material by a coupling fitting, the torsion angle ? reduces or disappears, a torsion angle to the axial direction N is generated in the first end portion, the first end portion locks on the locked member, and the connecting member connects the two construction materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Masanori KOBAYASHI, Shigeo YAMAGAMI, Katsuhiko MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20210116692
    Abstract: A sample observation device includes: an emission optical system that emits planar light to a sample; a scanning unit that scans the sample in one direction so as to pass through an emission surface of the planar light; an imaging optical system that has an observation axis inclined with respect to the emission surface and forms an image of observation light generated in the sample by emission of the planar light; an image acquisition unit that acquires image data corresponding to an optical image of the observation light formed by the imaging optical system; and an image generation unit that generates observation image data of the sample based on the image data acquired by the image acquisition unit. The imaging optical system has a non-axisymmetric optical element that bends a light beam on one axis of the observation light but does not bend a light beam on the other axis perpendicular to the one axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Masanori KOBAYASHI, Satoshi YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10882992
    Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition exhibiting good balance of mechanical properties, heat resistance, flowability, and size stability as well as excellent stability in retention in the molding, appearance of the molded article, and coating properties, and also, a molded article thereof are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Ueda, Masanori Kobayashi, Daisuke Sato, Taro Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10818414
    Abstract: A movable part composite cable includes a plurality of power supply wires being designed for electric power supply, which respectively include a plurality of insulated electric wires being laid together and being covered by each covering member, the plurality of power supply wires being arranged in contact with each other on surfaces of their respective covering members, one or more signal wires being designed for signal transmission, each signal wire having an outer diameter smaller than an outer diameter of each power supply wire, and a jacket, which is being provided over an outer periphery of an aggregate including the plurality of power supply wires and the one or more signal wires that are laid together. The power supply wires and the signal wires are not in direct contact with each other, or the power supply wires and the signal wires are in direct contact with each other with a contact area therebetween being smaller than a contact area between the power supply wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Detian Huang, Yoshinori Tsukamoto, Isao Matsuoka, Masanori Kobayashi, Masashi Moriyama
  • Publication number: 20200284289
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a spline telescopic shaft according to the present disclosure includes a toothless portion forming step of forming a toothless portion in one of an external tooth of a shaft body and an internal tooth of a tubular body, a resin layer forming step of forming a resin layer by arranging one of the shaft body and the tubular body in a mold including a cavity and injecting a resin into the cavity, the cavity being included in a flat receiving surface that faces tooth flanks of one of the external tooth of the shaft body and the internal tooth of the tubular body, and a cooling step of cooling one of the shaft body including the resin layer and the tubular body including the resin layer to form a lubricant reservoir in the resin layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, KOYO MACHINE INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki TSUJI, Masanori KOBAYASHI, Atsushi TANO, Toshihiro NEZU
  • Patent number: 10763012
    Abstract: A shielded cable includes an inner conductor, an insulation covering an outer periphery of the inner conductor, and an outer conductor covering an outer periphery of the insulation. The outer conductor includes a first outer conductor covering the outer periphery of the insulation and including a served shield with first element wires spirally wound, and a second outer conductor covering an outer periphery of the first outer conductor and including a braided shield with second element wires braided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Haruyuki Watanabe, Detian Huang, Kazuhiro Aida, Masanori Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10734137
    Abstract: A composite cable is composed of a power supply wire, which includes a twisted wire pair aggregate, which are being formed by laying a plurality of twisted wire pairs together, a plurality of coaxial wires, and a plurality of signal wires, which are each smaller in outer diameter than the power supply wire and the plurality of coaxial wires. The plurality of coaxial wires and the plurality of signal wires are being laid helically over an outer periphery of the power supply wire, and each of the plurality of coaxial wires is being arranged in contact with an outer periphery of the power supply wire, and is being arranged at equally spaced intervals in a circumferential direction of the power supply wire, while each of the plurality of signal wires is being arranged in such a manner as to remain separate from the power supply wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Detian Huang, Yoshinori Tsukamoto, Masanori Kobayashi, Isao Matsuoka, Masashi Moriyama