Patents by Inventor Masato Kobayashi

Masato 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: 8576545
    Abstract: A switchgear includes a chassis which is partitioned by metal earthed plates and includes a bus bar section located at a central portion, a switch section located below the bus bar section, a cable section located at a rear surface side, and a control section located at a front surface side; an air-insulated earthed disconnecting switch provided in the switch section; and a manipulating device. The switch section is separable from the chassis, and is configured as a case having a semi-closed structure which allows air to pass therethrough but prevents particles of oil and water from passing therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Takahashi, Kenji Tsuchiya, Ayumu Morita, Masato Kobayashi, Daisuke Sugai
  • Publication number: 20130285374
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of connecting pressure piping in a fluid-tight manner on-site without requiring welding. A plurality of through holes (h1) are provided in a cylindrical sleeve (1a) at separate locations in the lengthwise direction, and with identical angular intervals and without overlapping in the circumferential direction. Non-through holes (h2) in which screw threads have been formed are provided in pressure piping (P1, P2) at locations corresponding to the holes (h1). An insert (2a) is provided with a pair of opposing annular faces (b1, b2), and annular ring grooves (b11, b21) are formed respectively in the annular faces (b1, b2) to house O-rings (3). The insert (2a) is inserted into the sleeve (1a), after which the pressure piping (P1, P2) are inserted one from either side into the interior of the sleeve (1a), bolts (4) are inserted into the plurality of holes (h1) in the sleeve (1a), and screwed onto the screw threads of the pressure piping (P1, P2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Kazumi Kobayashi, Masato Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20130255418
    Abstract: In forming an actuator, a large end surface of a tapered roller of a tapered roller bearing is shot with minute particles of silicon carbide having a diameter of 0.5 to 100 ?m and having an angle formed by crushing, and such a surface is scraped concavely at a diameter within a range from 0.5 to 100 ?m to form a large number of concavities having a depth of equal to or greater than 1 ?m at a pitch of equal to or less than 200 ?m. The concavities are non-continuous and isolated from each other, and serve as a lubricant puddle. The concavities are formed by scraping and not by plastic deformation, and thus the surface is not hardened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: NSK Ltd
    Inventors: Masato Kobayashi, Tomoharu Saito, Shinji Fujita, Takanori Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20130242320
    Abstract: An image capturing unit includes: a sensor unit that captures an image of a predetermined area including an image capture object; a reference chart portion that is disposed in the predetermined area and an image of which is captured together with an image of the image capture object by the sensor unit; an illumination light source that illuminates the image capture object and the reference chart portion; and a specular reflection preventing member that prevents that specular reflection light of light emitted from the illumination light source enters the sensor unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventors: Yasuyuki SUZUKI, Nobuyuki Satoh, Mamoru Yorimoto, Suguru Yokozawa, Masato Kobayashi, Yuichi Sakurada, Tatsuhiko Okada, Tomokazu Kanzawa, Daisaku Horikawa, Hiroshi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20130242319
    Abstract: An imaging unit includes a frame having an opening; a sensor unit that captures, via the opening, a subject located outside the frame; a reference chart unit that is arranged on the frame and is captured by the sensor unit together with the subject; and a cover member that covers the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventors: Yasuyuki SUZUKI, Nobuyuki Satoh, Mamoru Yorimoto, Suguru Yokozawa, Yuichi Sakurada, Masato Kobayashi, Tatsuhiko Okada, Tomokazu Kanzawa, Daisaku Horikawa, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Ryo Honda, Makoto Moriwaki
  • Publication number: 20130242321
    Abstract: An image capturing unit includes a sensor unit that captures a predetermined area including a subject; a reference chart that is arranged in the predetermined area and captured together with the subject by the sensor unit; an optical path length changing member that is arranged on an optical path extending from the subject to the sensor unit and is capable of changing a length of the optical path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko OKADA, Nobuyuki Satoh, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Mamoru Yorimoto, Masato Kobayashi, Yuichi Sakurada, Suguru Yokozawa, Tomokazu Kanzawa, Daisaku Horikawa, Hiroshi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20130242361
    Abstract: An image capturing device includes a sensor unit that captures a predetermined range including a subject; a reference chart that is captured by the sensor unit together with the subject; an illumination light source that illuminates the subject and the reference chart; a lens member including one or more lenses arranged in an optical path of reflected light extending from the subject and the reference chart to the sensor unit; and a lens moving unit that moves at least one lens of the lens member so as to change a position thereof in a direction along the optical path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventors: Hiroshi MATSUMOTO, Nobuyuki Satoh, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Mamoru Yorimoto, Masato Kobayashi, Yuichi Sakurada, Suguru Yokozawa, Tatsuhiko Okada, Tomokazu Kanzawa, Daisaku Horikawa
  • Patent number: 8534789
    Abstract: A disclosed recording apparatus includes a carriage having a recording head including nozzles, a moving unit configured to move the carriage, a platen including plural plate members connected in a carriage traveling direction to support a recording medium, a transferring unit to transfer the recording medium in a direction perpendicular to the carriage traveling direction, a recording control unit to record patterns at predetermined positions to form a carriage traveling direction pattern array plural times in a transferring direction of the transferring unit by changing relative recording times for recording the carriage traveling direction pattern array in forward and backward traveling directions, a determination unit to determine ink ejecting times at the predetermined positions, and a time control unit to linearly interpolate between the determined ink ejecting times at the predetermined positions to control ink ejecting times for intervals between the predetermined positions based on the obtained linear
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Sakurada, Nobuyuki Satoh, Masato Kobayashi, Arata Suzuki, Tatsuhiko Okada, Daisaku Horikawa
  • Publication number: 20130229671
    Abstract: An image capturing unit includes a sensor section that images a predetermined range including a subject; a reference chart section that is imaged by the sensor section with the subject; and an illumination light source that illuminates the subject and the reference chart section. The illumination light source is arranged at a position where a mirror reflection region that mirror reflects light entering from the illumination light source to the sensor section is outside a region of the subject and the reference chart section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Inventors: Suguru YOKOZAWA, Nobuyuki Satoh, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Masato Kobayashi, Yuichi Sakurada, Mamoru Yorimoto, Tatsuhiko Okada, Daisaku Horikawa, Masahiro Shigemoto, Kazushi Takei, Hideaki Suzuki, Satoshi Iwanami
  • Publication number: 20130208289
    Abstract: A color measuring device includes a unit configured to calculate a reference-value matrix for converting imaged reference RGB value of a reference color patch a reference colorimetric value of the reference color patch; a unit configured to convert a color-measurement RGB value of a color measurement object into an imaged colorimetric value of the color measurement object by using the corresponding reference-value matrix; a unit configured to select reference color patches of which the reference colorimetric values each have a close distance from the imaged colorimetric value in the predetermined color space; a unit configured to select, as selection RGB values, the imaged reference RGB values of the selected patches; a unit configured to calculate a selection-RGB-value matrix for converting the selection RGB values into the reference colorimetric values; and a unit configured to convert the color-measurement RGB value into a colorimetric value by using the selection-RGB-value matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventors: Nobuyuki SATOH, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Masato Kobayashi, Yuichi Sakurada, Suguru Yokozawa, Mamoru Yorimoto, Tatsuhiko Okada, Daisaku Horikawa, Ryo Honda
  • Publication number: 20130196188
    Abstract: It is an objective of the present invention to provide a battery case lid and a manufacturing method for the battery case lid which inhibit work hardening of a metal plate workpiece and which facilitate manufacture of a battery case lid. Provided is a battery case lid (1) formed by working a metal plate, including: a substrate section (2) and an explosion-proof valve (4) formed in the substrate section (2), wherein the explosion-proof valve (4) has a reduced thickness section (41) thinner than the substrate section (2), and the reduced thickness section (41) is formed by extending the metal plate by applying pressure while the metal plate is kept unrestrained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicants: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD., SOODE NAGANO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Takayuki Sode, Yukinori Sugiyama, Shinichi Nomura, Masato Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8496312
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a carriage having a recording head including nozzles, a moving unit moving the carriage, a platen including plate members connected in a carriage traveling direction to support a recording medium when the nozzles eject ink onto the recording medium, a transferring unit transferring the recording medium in a transferring direction perpendicular to the carriage traveling direction, a recording control unit recording patterns at predetermined positions in the carriage traveling direction while moving the carriage in forward and backward traveling directions to form a carriage traveling direction pattern array, a determination unit determining ink ejecting times at the predetermined positions in the carriage traveling direction, and a time control unit to linearly interpolate between the determined ink ejecting times at the predetermined positions in the carriage traveling direction to control ink ejecting times for intervals between the predetermined positions based on a result of
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Sakurada, Nobuyuki Satoh, Masato Kobayashi, Arata Suzuki, Tatsuhiko Okada, Daisaku Horikawa, Daisuke Sawada, Norikazu Taki
  • Patent number: 8491080
    Abstract: A recording device including a paper feeder tray that accommodated a recording medium, a print head that discharges ink on the recording medium to record an image thereon, a transfer roller that transfers the recording medium and a printed test chart on which multiple marks are arranged, a control device that controls the transfer roller, a first detection device that detects a rotation position of the transfer roller, a second detection device that detects the multiple marks arranged on the printed test chart, and a transfer device that transfers the recording medium from the paper feeder tray to the second detection device, wherein the control device obtains an difference between an actual transfer amount of each of the multiple marks obtained by detecting the multiple marks by the second detection device and a predetermined theoretical transfer amount of each of the multiple marks relating to a rotation position of the transfer roller, calculates a correction amount for the rotation amount of the transfer
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Sakurada, Nobuyuki Satoh, Masato Kobayashi, Tomonori Kimura, Arata Suzuki, Yasuo Sakurai
  • Patent number: 8465146
    Abstract: A movable member encoder is used to detect the position of a movable member, and a correction value calculator calculates a correction value corresponding to the amount of displacement of the movable member from a reference position and the integration of the amount of displacement. The correction value calculated by the correction value calculator is then used in correcting a voltage instruction value output from a feed motor controller to a feed motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Satoh, Jun Yamane, Masato Kobayashi, Norikazu Taki, Tatsuhiko Okada, Daisaku Horikawa, Daisuke Sawada
  • Patent number: 8453828
    Abstract: A conveying apparatus that rotates a roller and conveys an object, the conveying apparatus including: a roller driving unit that rotates the roller; a first operation unit that operates a rotation amount of the roller corresponding to a target movement amount of the object, on the basis of the target movement amount and information of a roller diameter, and quantizes the rotation amount; a random number generating unit that generates a random number; a second operation unit that operates a corrected rotation amount of the roller obtained by correcting the rotation amount, on the basis of the random number generated by the random number generating unit, a quantization error obtained by the first operation unit and a quantization method; and a driving control unit that controls driving of the roller according to the corrected rotation amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Satoh, Masato Kobayashi, Yuichi Sakurada, Arata Suzuki, Tatsuhiko Okada, Daisaku Horikawa
  • Publication number: 20130135484
    Abstract: An image capturing unit includes a sensor unit that image-captures a predetermined area including a subject; and a reference chart unit that is arranged in the predetermined area and captured with the subject by the sensor unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Inventors: Nobuyuki SATOH, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Masato Kobayashi, Suguru Yokozawa, Tatsuhiko Okada, Mamoru Yorimoto, Daisaku Horikawa, Yuichi Sakurada
  • Patent number: 8426754
    Abstract: An electrical contact comprising a contact layer for making a contact with an opposite electrical contact and a high conductive layer in an opposite side of the contact layer, the layers being integrally connected to each other, wherein the contact layer contains Cr, Cu and Te, and the high conductive layer contains copper as a main component, and wherein the high conductive layer is provided with a means for suppressing warp of the contact layer at the time of turning on of the contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Kikuchi, Satoru Kajiwara, Masato Kobayashi, Misuk Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8424997
    Abstract: A recording device including a carriage head, a recording head installed onto the carriage head, the recording head having an array of nozzles that discharges ink on a recording medium, a transfer roller that transfers the recording medium in a direction along the array of nozzles, a control device that controls rotation of the transfer roller, a first detection roller that detects a rotation position of the transfer roller, and a second detection device that detects a mark printed on the recording medium by the recording head, the control device including a print control device that controls printing the marks on the recording medium in the direction along the array of nozzles from the array of nozzles of the recording head while the carriage and the transfer roller remain still, a calculation device that calculates a correction amount for use in correction of a rotation angle of the transfer roller according to a difference between an actual transfer amount of the recording medium by the transfer roller at
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masato Kobayashi, Yasuo Sakurai, Nobuyuki Satoh, Tomonori Kimura, Yuichi Sakurada, Arata Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8420662
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a stable solid preparation comprising a 4,5-epoxymorphinan derivative or a pharmacologically acceptable acid addition salt thereof as an effective ingredient. That is, the present invention provides the stable solid preparation comprising the 4,5-epoxymorphinan derivative or the pharmacologically acceptable acid addition salt thereof as the effective ingredient, and comprising sodium thiosulfate, a sugar or a sugar alcohol and hydroxypropylcellulose having a low degree of substitution in an amount of 1 to 30% by weight per weight of a unit containing the effective ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Suguru Takaki, Kotoe Ohta, Yasuhide Horiuchi, Masato Kobayashi, Junko Kawasaki, Eijiro Horisawa
  • Patent number: 8403149
    Abstract: A cyclone classifier for classifying a particulate material, including an outer cylinder having a waistless part and an inverted-cone part vertically connected to an underside of the waistless part, and an inner cylinder which includes an exhaust opening such that the inner cylinder has a position-adjustable bottom end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kadota, Kenichi Uehara, Noboru Kuroda, Masato Kobayashi