Patents by Inventor Masashi Kobayashi
Masashi 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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Publication number: 20240411844Abstract: A control device for controlling a vehicle includes a travel control unit configured to provide a plurality of functions related to traveling of the vehicle, and a management unit configured to manage agreement information about whether a driver of the vehicle agrees to the vehicle using specific personal information acquired by a sensor of the vehicle. The number of functions executable in a case where the driver does not agree to use of the specific personal information out of the plurality of functions is smaller than the number of functions executable in a case where the driver agrees to the use of the specific personal information out of the plurality of functions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2024Publication date: December 12, 2024Inventors: Kenji OKAMURA, Hidetoshi CHIKAMORI, Kazune HASEGAWA, Tomoya TAKAYAMA, Shota HOSHAKU, Koichiro WADA, Masashi KANESAKA, Akio FUTATSUDERA, Takuma KOBAYASHI, Satoshi SADAMURA, Hiroshi AKIYAMA, Nozomu HIROSAWA
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Publication number: 20240399599Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vibratory linear actuator and a cutter capable of suppressing vibration while enabling a size reduction. A vibratory linear actuator according to the present disclosure includes an output movable body and vibration-absorbing movable body reciprocating at opposite phases. The vibratory linear actuator also includes a coupling member configured to couple the output movable body and vibration-absorbing movable body to each other. Vibration-absorbing movable body further includes absorbing-side weight configured to adjust to move the position of the center of gravity of vibration-absorbing movable body closer to the position of the center of gravity of the output movable body.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2024Publication date: December 5, 2024Inventors: YASUYUKI HIRANO, NAOHIRO MATSUMOTO, MASASHI MORIGUCHI, NOBORU KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20240399495Abstract: A laser processing apparatus and a laser processing method that can effectively prevent a processing time for one semiconductor film from increasing are provided. A laser processing apparatus (1) according to an embodiment includes a laser light source (2) configured to irradiate a semiconductor film (M1) with a laser beam, a film state measuring instrument (5) configured to measure a state of the semiconductor film after the semiconductor film (M1) is irradiated with the laser beam, and a laser light adjusting mechanism configured to adjust a timing at which the semiconductor film (M1) is irradiated with a next laser beam and intensity of the laser beam according to the state of the semiconductor film (M1) measured by the film state measuring instrument (5).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2024Publication date: December 5, 2024Inventors: Naoyuki KOBAYASHI, Masashi MACHIDA, Hiroaki IMAMURA
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Publication number: 20240405618Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a vibratory linear actuator, a fastening structure for fastening the vibratory linear actuator to a fastening portion counterpart, and a cutter enabled to achieve a size reduction of the stator element while suppressing deformation of the fastening portion counterpart is provided. A vibratory linear actuator according to the present disclosure includes stator element capable of driving a movable element. This stator element includes stator body and fastening portion connected to stator body and capable of being fastened to fastening portion counterpart provided to another component. In a side view in a state where stator element is disposed in such a way one surface of stator body faces downwards, fastening portion includes: a pair of legs protruding downwards from one surface and facing each other; and a pair of protrusions that are provided to legs, respectively, and protruding inward in a direction in which the legs face each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2024Publication date: December 5, 2024Inventors: YASUYUKI HIRANO, NAOHIRO MATSUMOTO, MASASHI MORIGUCHI, NOBORU KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20240396104Abstract: A power storage system includes: a power storage device mounted on a vehicle; a heat source configured to be capable of heating the power storage device with electric power; and a control device configured to control the heat source. The control device is configured to detect supply power that is supplied to the vehicle from a power-supplying facility provided outside the vehicle, determine a first target temperature by using the detected supply power, and control the heat source to cause a temperature of the power storage device to approach the first target temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2024Publication date: November 28, 2024Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Jumpei HOSOI, Masashi KOBAYASHI, Toru ANDO
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Publication number: 20240379385Abstract: Provided is a wafer conveyance device that suppresses a temperature rise of gas in a wafer conveyance chamber. A wafer conveyance device for conveying a wafer between a FOUP (Front-Opening Unified Pod) in which the wafer is stored and a processing device for processing the wafer, the wafer conveyance device including a wafer conveyance chamber in which a conveyance robot is installed, an FFU chamber communicating with the wafer conveyance chamber, a return duct provided in a wall or a door of the wafer conveyance chamber and communicating with both the wafer conveyance chamber and the FFU room, a blowing fan that blows gas from the FFU chamber into the wafer conveyance chamber, and a heat exchanger that cools the gas circulating in an internal space including the FFU chamber, the return duct, and the wafer conveyance chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2024Publication date: November 14, 2024Applicant: Hitachi High-Tech CorporationInventors: Katsutoshi KOBAYASHI, Akira NISHIOKA, Tomokazu KOBAYASHI, Masashi FUJITA, Toshihiko SHIMIZU, Itsuro SAWADA
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Publication number: 20240380133Abstract: A terminal is constructed to be connected to an attachment target by a bolt, and includes a first surface, a through hole, and an asperity portion. A material for the terminal is aluminum, etc. The terminal has a Vickers hardness equal to or higher than 80 HV. A ratio S1/S2 between a first area S1 and a second area S2 while the first surface and the attachment target are connected to each other by tightening of the bolt is equal to or lower than 0.8. The first area S1 is an area of a region where the first surface is in contact with the attachment target at a pressure equal to or higher than 25 MPa. The second area S2 is an area of an annular region around the bolt. The first area S1 is equal to or larger than 5 mm2.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2023Publication date: November 14, 2024Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd.Inventors: Ryohei KOBAYASHI, Toru MAEDA, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Masashi FUJIKI, Akihiro HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20240376304Abstract: A method for producing a thermoplastic fluororesin tube, the thermoplastic fluroresin tube having tearability in a longitudinal direction, wherein a thermal expansion coefficient in the longitudinal direction upon heating in a gaseous phase at a temperature of 100° C. for 5 minutes is 0% or more, the method including the steps of: subjecting a thermoplastic fluororesin to melt extrusion molding to obtain a raw tube of the thermoplastic fluororesin tube; and expanding an inner diameter of the raw tube while heating the raw tube to a temperature of from 110-135° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2024Publication date: November 14, 2024Inventors: Kazutaka Sekiya, Hiroshi Ohshima, Daiki Kobayashi, Masashi Kikuchi
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Patent number: 12139884Abstract: A work vehicle includes an operating lever configured to operate a work implement, an actuator configured to move the operating lever, and a control section configured to control the actuator to move the operating lever to a retreat position outside an operation range of the operating lever.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Masashi Katoh, Yuuki Kobayashi, Keisuke Kubota
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Patent number: 12135480Abstract: According to some aspects, a liquid crystal display panel comprising an electrode is provided. The electrode comprises a plurality of convex branch electrode portions arranged in a plane, the convex branch electrode portions being convex when viewed from a first direction perpendicular to the plane and extending from a central region of the electrode to a periphery of the electrode, and a plurality of concave branch electrode portions, the concave branch electrode portions being concave when viewed from the first direction, extending from the central region to the periphery and adjacent to convex branch electrode portions. According to some aspects, a method of applying a pretilt to molecules in a liquid crystal layer of a liquid crystal display panel by applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer via first and second electrodes is provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2023Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventors: Shunichi Suwa, Masashi Miyakawa, Chikashi Kobayashi, Yoji Nagase
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Publication number: 20240360334Abstract: The present invention provides a curable composition which provides a coating film having excellent hot water-resistant adhesiveness, a cured product of the curable composition, a laminate using the curable composition, and production methods thereof. The curable composition of the present invention comprises the following compound A and the following compound B. Compound A: a compound in which (TI) 2 calculated by the following expression (L) is 3.65 to 9.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2024Publication date: October 31, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Masato TOMINAGA, Akira MIYACHI, Masashi SHIBATA, Takao KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20240343517Abstract: A sheet supplying apparatus, which is capable of winding a sheet tightly, includes a driving unit configured to cause a roll including a wound consecutive sheet to rotate in a first direction for feeding the sheet or a second direction opposite to the first direction, a sensor that detects a leading end portion of the sheet separated from an outer circumferential surface of the roll, and a contact body that presses the outer circumferential surface. Before the sheet is fed, in a state in which the contact body presses the outer circumferential surface, the driving unit causes the roll to continuously rotate in the second direction until a detection cycle of the leading end portion by the sensor is less than a predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2024Publication date: October 17, 2024Inventors: Tomohiro Suzuki, Masashi Kamada, Masato Eiyama, Yuki Igarashi, Masashi Negishi, Ryoya Shinjo, Ryo Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20240347566Abstract: An optical element includes a transparent layer for covering a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element; and a plurality of structures disposed in a plane direction of the transparent layer, on a side opposite to the plurality of pixels with at least a part of the transparent layer interposed therebetween. The plurality of structures are disposed in multiple layers to guide light of a color corresponding to each of the plurality of pixels among incident light to a corresponding pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2021Publication date: October 17, 2024Inventors: Masashi MIYATA, Fumihide KOBAYASHI, Toshikazu HASHIMOTO
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Patent number: 12115778Abstract: A roll sheet, in which a continuous sheet is wound in a roll form, is caused to rotate in a forward direction to supply the sheet to a printing unit. First and second sensors are arranged at positions facing an outer circumferential surface of the roll sheet and deviated in an axis line direction of the roll sheet. Outputs of the first and second sensors are changed in accordance with a distance to a sheet of the roll sheet. A rotation direction of the roll sheet is switched from a forward direction to a reverse direction on the basis of the outputs of the first and second sensors while the roll sheet is being rotated in the reverse direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Midori Yasuda, Yuki Kamio, Masashi Kamada, Masato Eiyama, Yuki Igarashi, Masashi Negishi, Ryoya Shinjo, Ryo Kobayashi, Tomohiro Suzuki
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Patent number: 12104228Abstract: The aluminum alloy in the cross-section of the surface layer region of the aluminum alloy plate contains a compound containing one or more elements selected from the group consisting of silicon, magnesium, iron, copper, manganese, chromium, zinc, zirconium, and titanium, and aluminum. The number of fields of view containing the compound having an equivalent circle diameter of 5 ?m or more out of 10 fields of view extracted from the cross-section is 3 or less. In the cross-section, the number density of the compound having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.5 ?m or more and less than 5.0 ?m is 0.0010 per ?m2 or less, and the area ratio of the compound having an equivalent circle diameter of 0.5 ?m or more is 0.1% or more and less than 1.0%.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.Inventors: Ryohei Kobayashi, Toru Maeda, Tetsuya Kuwabara, Masashi Fujiki, Akihiro Hayashi
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Publication number: 20240322719Abstract: According to an embodiment, a field winding interlayer short-circuit monitoring device comprises: an input unit configured to obtain field winding current values and field winding voltage values at a predetermined sampling cycle; a memory configured to store field winding resistance versus current characteristic curves at an abnormal state and a normal state; and a field winding resistance calculator configured to calculate a field winding resistance value by dividing the field winding voltage value by the field winding current; an average value calculator configured to calculate an average resistance value and an average current value by averaging those obtained during a predetermined time interval; and an image data generator configured to generate image data to display a predetermined number of average value data along with the field winding resistance versus current characteristic curves at the normal state and the abnormal state.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Masafumi FUJITA, Yasuo KABATA, Toshio HIRANO, Yuichiro GUNJI, Masashi KOBAYASHI, Hirotada ENDO, Koji ANDO
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Patent number: 12090570Abstract: A laser processing apparatus and a laser processing method that can effectively prevent a processing time for one semiconductor film from increasing are provided. A laser processing apparatus (1) according to an embodiment includes a laser light source (2) configured to irradiate a semiconductor film (M1) with a laser beam, a film state measuring instrument (5) configured to measure a state of the semiconductor film after the semiconductor film (M1) is irradiated with the laser beam, and a laser light adjusting mechanism configured to adjust a timing at which the semiconductor film (M1) is irradiated with a next laser beam and intensity of the laser beam according to the state of the semiconductor film (M1) measured by the film state measuring instrument (5).Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: JSW AKTINA SYSTEM CO., LTDInventors: Naoyuki Kobayashi, Masashi Machida, Hiroaki Imamura
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Publication number: 20240295196Abstract: When a vehicle accelerates due to an upshifting of a transmission, a recirculation valve is opened and ignition period is retarded so that the torque generated in an internal combustion engine decreases. When upshifting of the transmission of the vehicle is completed, retarding of the ignition period is ended and the recirculation valve is closed at different timings. As a result, the amount of torque recovery at the end of the upshifting of the transmission of the vehicle can be prevented from increasing more than expected, and the acceleration rate after the shift can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2021Publication date: September 5, 2024Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira KOJIMA, Tetsuya FUKE, Masashi MORIKAWA, Kazuhiro OOMICHI, Kouhei KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20240274317Abstract: A flat cable is provided with cables arranged in parallel in a width direction, and sheaths of the cables adjacent to one another are fused together. The mass of the cable arranged at a center in the width direction is greater than the mass of the cable arranged at edges in the width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2024Publication date: August 15, 2024Inventors: Masashi MORIYAMA, Detian HUANG, Masanori KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 12057743Abstract: In general, according to one embodiment, there is provided an abnormality detection system of a rotary electrical machine. The system includes a plurality of magnetic flux sensors disposed at intervals on a back of a stator core in a circumferential direction or an axial direction, and configured to detect a magnetic flux, and an abnormality detection apparatus configured to detect an abnormality of the stator core from a predetermined event that appears in a composite signal or a differential signal obtained from signals respectively output from at least two magnetic flux sensors of the plurality of magnetic flux sensors.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Norio Takahashi, Masafumi Fujita, Takahiro Sato, Takashi Ueda, Ken Nagakura, Masashi Kobayashi, Koji Ando