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: 20190076365
    Abstract: Provided is a tablet which can be easily pinched even for an elderly person or a patient who has a limited range of joint motion, and which is hard to roll even if slipping out of a hand. The tablet 1 includes a three-dimensional tablet body portion 10 and a protruding portion 20 protruding outward in a longitudinal direction of the tablet body portion 10 continuously from a side surface of the tablet body portion 10. The protruding portion 20 has a first protruding portion 21 and a second protruding portion 22 protruding in opposite directions from each other via the tablet body portion 10. Each of the first protruding portion 21 and the second protruding portion 22 protrudes from the upper portion and the lower portion of the side surface of the tablet body portion 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: ASTELLAS PHARMA INC.
    Inventors: SHOTA HATTORI, SORATO IKEDA, MASANORI KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10217548
    Abstract: A coaxial cable includes a conductor, an insulation layer provided around the conductor, a shield layer provided around the insulation layer, and a sheath provided around the shield layer. The insulation layer includes a first insulation layer, a second insulation layer and a third insulation layer that are arranged in this order from a conductor side. The first insulation layer includes a non-solid extruded layer. The second layer includes a foamed layer not adhering to the first insulation layer. The third insulation layer includes a non-foamed layer adhering to the second insulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Detian Huang, Masanori Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Aida
  • Patent number: 10179853
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a material for fused-deposition-type three-dimensional modeling whereby a warp-free modeled object is obtained without devising a modeling shape and without installing a special apparatus as a 3D printer device, and whereby a modeled article having flexibility as well as excellent surface polishing properties is obtained. [Solution] A material for fused-deposition-type three-dimensional modeling, obtained by blending 10-900 parts by weight of a styrene-based resin (B1) obtained by copolymerization of an aromatic vinyl-monomer (b1) and a cyanated vinyl-monomer (b2), and/or 5-400 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin (B2) having a glass transition temperature of 20° C. or lower and/or 5-30 parts by weight of a plasticizer (B3), with respect to 100 parts by weight of a polylactic resin (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Naito, Taeko Nito, Masanori Kobayashi, Takayuki Hase, Katsuya Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20180318973
    Abstract: A universal joint includes a bearing including a bearing cup fitted in a bearing hole of a yoke and rolling elements arranged between the bearing cup and a shaft portion of a cross shaft. A method for manufacturing the universal joint includes: simulating a shrunken state in which a sample bearing cup selected from bearing cups in a same lot is fitted in the bearing hole such that only an outside diameter is restrained, by press-fitting the sample bearing cup into a reference hole of a reference jig; measuring a diameter of an inscribed circle inscribed to the rolling elements in the shrunken state; setting an outside diameter of the shaft portion to a required outside diameter according to the diameter of the inscribed circle; and inserting the bearing cup with the rolling elements between the shaft portion having the required outside diameter and the bearing hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi KOYAMA, Masanori KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20180298479
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a production method of a rolled sheet for cold-rolling, the method being characterized by including: a hot-rolling step for forming a rolled sheet by hot-rolling a pure titanium material while coiling; and an annealing step for annealing the hot-rolled sheet after the hot-rolling step, the coiling temperature in the hot-rolling step being 500° C. or less, and the annealing step being controlled so that the percentage area of recrystallized grains in the microstructure of the hot-rolled sheet after annealing is at least 90% and the mean grain size of the recrystallized grains is 5 ?m to 10 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Kazuya KIMIJIMA, Masanori KOBAYASHI, Tohru SHIOGAMA, Keitaro TAMURA, Yasuyuki FUJII
  • Patent number: 10088831
    Abstract: The numerical controller detects an abnormal interference between targets for interference check in a machine tool, including a tool and a workpiece, based on a machining program. The numerical controller changes a direction (contactable direction) in which the tool can contact the workpiece for machining and determines that an interference between the tool and the workpiece is abnormal if the tool compensation direction of radius compensation is not included in the changed contactable direction for the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: FANUC Corporation
    Inventor: Masanori Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20180277284
    Abstract: A coaxial cable includes a conductor, an insulation layer provided around the conductor, a shield layer provided around the insulation layer, and a sheath provided around the shield layer. The insulation layer includes a first insulation layer, a second insulation layer and a third insulation layer that are arranged in this order from a conductor side. The first insulation layer includes a non-solid extruded layer. The second layer includes a foamed layer not adhering to the first insulation layer. The third insulation layer includes a non-foamed layer adhering to the second insulation layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Detian HUANG, Masanori KOBAYASHI, Kazuhiro AIDA
  • Patent number: 10020095
    Abstract: A coaxial cable includes a conductor, an insulation layer provided around the conductor, a shield layer provided around the insulation layer, and a sheath provided around the shield layer. The insulation layer includes a first insulation layer, a second insulation layer and a third insulation layer that are arranged in this order from a conductor side. The first insulation layer includes a non-solid extruded layer. The second layer includes a foamed layer not adhering to the first insulation layer. The third insulation layer includes a non-foamed layer adhering to the second insulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Detian Huang, Masanori Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Aida
  • Patent number: 10010857
    Abstract: The present invention provides an a polyarylene sulfide (PAS) production device provided with a supply tube for loading corrosive materials such as a strong alkali into a reaction vessel, wherein prescribed amounts of various raw materials or the like can be accurately loaded into the reaction vessel without causing decreases in production efficiency due to the replacement of the supply tube or the repair of the reaction vessel in response to the corrosion of the supply tube or the like. The present invention is a production device, and a PAS production device, in particular, provided with a reaction vessel equipped with one or a plurality of supply tubes, at least one of the supply tubes having an insert pipe, which is preferably detachable, to be inserted into an outer supply tube; and a tip opening of the insert pipe being positioned further inward than an inside wall of the reaction vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: KUREHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Kobayashi, Tetsuya Morikawa, Kiyotaka Tadano, Yoshihiro Ichinose, Koichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9908974
    Abstract: The present invention provides a production method and a production apparatus for a polyarylene sulfide (PAS), thus the formation of a floating polymer and the leakage of the floating polymer to the outside of the vessel in a washing step are prevented, to achieve steady production of the polymer with high quality, to improve the yield of the polymer and to reduce environmental load, wherein the floating polymer refers to a particles of the polymer which are floating on the surface of a washing solution, in the upper part of the inside of a washing vessel, as a result of the adhesion of a gas onto the surface of the particles of the polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Kureha Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Kobayashi, Tomoyoshi Koizumi, Mitsuhiro Matsuzaki, Hirohito Kawama
  • Patent number: 9890222
    Abstract: The PAS production device of the present invention is a PAS production device provided with a reaction vessel equipped with one or a plurality of baffles; each baffle being supported by one or a plurality of baffle supports provided in a protruding manner on an inside wall of the reaction vessel; and at least one of the baffle supports having one or a plurality of openings preferably passing through the baffle support in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: KUREHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi Yokoyama, Kohta Koichi, Michihisa Miyahara, Masanori Kobayashi, Koichi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20180037002
    Abstract: A laminate film which exhibits excellent gas barrier properties and lamination strength even after a severe retort treatment or which is small deterioration of gas barrier properties and hardly cause interlayer peeling can be provided. The laminate film comprises a coating layer, a metal oxide layer and a protective layer, with another intervening layer or without any intervening layer, laminated in this order on at least one surface of a polyester substrate film, wherein the coating layer comprises an oxazoline group-containing resin (A) and a polyurethane resin (B), wherein the metal oxide layer comprises a composite oxide composed of silicon oxide and aluminum oxide, and wherein the protective layer comprises a polyurethane resin (D), the polyurethane resin (D) contains a metaxylylene group in an amount of 20 to 33% by mass and a silanol group in an amount of 700 to 1700 mg per kg of a resin constituting the polyurethane resin (D), as a Si element amount contained in the silanol group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicants: TOYOBO CO., LTD., MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Atsushi YAMAZAKI, Masanori KOBAYASHI, Chikako KODA, Takashi UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20170313790
    Abstract: The present invention provides a polyarylene sulfide (PAS) production device which suppresses the accumulation of deposits on a baffle (baffle board) or the like disposed inside a reaction vessel via a baffle support for the purpose of enhanced stirring efficiency or the like, thereby contributing to enhanced production efficiency, reduced cost of removing accumulation, and enhanced quality of the PAS product. The PAS production device of the present invention is a PAS production device provided with a reaction vessel equipped with one or a plurality of baffles; each baffle being supported by one or a plurality of baffle supports provided in a protruding manner on an inside wall of the reaction vessel; and at least one of the baffle supports having one or a plurality of openings preferably passing through the baffle support in the vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: Kureha Corporation
    Inventors: RYUICHI YOKOYAMA, KOHTA KOICHI, MICHIHISA MIYAHARA, MASANORI KOBAYASHI, KOICHI SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20170293289
    Abstract: A manufacturing management system capable of appropriately evaluating a degree of consumption of each component of a manufacturing machine, and efficiently operating a manufacturing cell including the manufacturing machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Masanori KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170282150
    Abstract: The present invention provides an a polyarylene sulfide (PAS) production device provided with a supply tube for loading corrosive materials such as a strong alkali into a reaction vessel, wherein prescribed amounts of various raw materials or the like can be accurately loaded into the reaction vessel without causing decreases in production efficiency due to the replacement of the supply tube or the repair of the reaction vessel in response to the corrosion of the supply tube or the like. The present invention is a production device, and a PAS production device, in particular, provided with a reaction vessel equipped with one or a plurality of supply tubes, at least one of the supply tubes having an insert pipe, which is preferably detachable, to be inserted into an outer supply tube; and a tip opening of the insert pipe being positioned further inward than an inside wall of the reaction vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: MASANORI KOBAYASHI, TETSUYA MORIKAWA, KIYOTAKA TADANO, YOSHIHIRO ICHINOSE, KOICHI SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20170219016
    Abstract: In a steering system, a first universal joint includes a first yoke coupled to an intermediate shaft. A second universal joint includes a fourth yoke paired with a third yoke coupled to the intermediate shaf and a shaft attachment portion joined to the fourth yoke and in which a bolt insertion hole allowing a pinion shaft to be clamped is formed. When an angle between the intermediate shaf and a steering shaft is set to ?1, an around-axis angle of the first yoke in a rotating direction is set to ?1, and an angle between the intermediate shaft and the pinion shaft is set to ?2, a junction angle between the fourth yoke and the shaft attachment portion in the rotating direction is adjusted to set an around-axis angle of the bolt insertion hole in the rotating direction to a preset angle ?2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori KOBAYASHI, Naoki TSUJI, Takeshi KOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170211563
    Abstract: A hermetic compressor includes, inside hermetic container (1), electric motor element (2), compression element (3) driven by electric motor element (2), and lubricating oil (7) for lubricating compression element (3). The hermetic compressor further includes vibration damping member (16) having one part fixed to hermetic container (1) and another part being free end part (18). Structurally, a natural frequency of vibration damping member (16) is in substantial conformity with a natural frequency of hermetic container (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: MASANORI KOBAYASHI, KAZUHIRO YOKOTA, TERUMASA IDE, KENJI KINJO
  • Patent number: 9715226
    Abstract: A numerical controller with a multi-core processor estimates moving instruction creation processing time required for creation of a moving instruction that is to be executed in a predetermined cycle on the basis of a machining instruction obtained from a machining program and divides a process for creating the moving instruction with respect to cores of the multi-core processor on the basis of the estimated processing time. Consequently, processing performance for the moving instruction creation process is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC Corporation
    Inventor: Masanori Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20170029570
    Abstract: The present invention provides a production method and a production apparatus for a polyarylene sulfide (PAS), thus the formation of a floating polymer and the leakage of the floating polymer to the outside of the vessel in a washing step are prevented, to achieve steady production of the polymer with high quality, to improve the yield of the polymer and to reduce environmental load, wherein the floating polymer refers to a particles of the polymer which are floating on the surface of a washing solution, in the upper part of the inside of a washing vessel, as a result of the adhesion of a gas onto the surface of the particles of the polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: Kureha Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori KOBAYASHI, Tomoyoshi KOIZUMI, Mitsuhiro MATSUZAKI, Hirohito KAWAMA
  • Publication number: 20170009758
    Abstract: A sealed compressor includes sealed container that contains electric element, and compression element driven by electric element. Compression element includes shaft that includes main shaft portion, and eccentric shaft portion integrally movable with main shaft portion, and bearing portion that supports main shaft portion of shaft to constitute a cantilever bearing. Compression element further includes cylinder that compresses gas, piston reciprocatively inserted into cylinder, and connecting rod that connects eccentric shaft portion with piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: MASANORI KOBAYASHI, KO INAGAKI