Patents by Inventor Masayoshi Kobayashi

Masayoshi 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: 9389846
    Abstract: Prior to performing download play, it is checked whether or not it is necessary to update firmware of a slave apparatus. When it is necessary to update the firmware of the slave apparatus, a firmware update program is transmitted from a master apparatus to the slave apparatus, and the firmware of the slave apparatus is updated in accordance with the firmware update program. Thus, it is possible to update basic software by a novel method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Hatamoto, Eiji Tokunaga, Masayoshi Matsuoka, Teruhiko Goda, Seiji Shibaguchi, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Tsutomu Araki, Megumi Kurata
  • Patent number: 9366442
    Abstract: A fuel injector includes: a pilot injector configured to spray fuel so as to form a first combustion region in a combustion chamber; and a main injector provided coaxially with the pilot injector so as to surround the pilot injector and configured to supply a fuel-air mixture that is a mixture of the fuel and air to form a second combustion region in the combustion chamber, wherein the pilot injector includes: a center nozzle configured to eject air jet flowing straight in an axial direction on a central axis of the pilot injector; an inside swirler provided on a radially outer side of the center nozzle and configured to cause inflow air to swirl around the central axis; and a pilot fuel injecting portion configured to inject the fuel from between the center nozzle and the inside swirler to air flow in the center nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignees: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
    Inventors: Ryusuke Matsuyama, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Takeo Oda, Atsushi Horikawa, Shigeru Hayashi, Kazuo Shimodaira, Kazuaki Matsuura, Hideshi Yamada, Youji Kurosawa, Hitoshi Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20160062629
    Abstract: An example system includes: a display processing unit performing processing of displaying on a display unit a basic screen containing a selection image and a background image, the selection image being constructed from one or a plurality of images used for receiving selection operation, the background image serving as a background of the selection image; a background setting reception unit receiving setting concerning the background image of the selection image; and a change unit, in accordance with the setting received by the background setting reception unit, changing at least one of a BGM, a sound effect, a design of the one or plurality of images, arrangement of the one or plurality of images, and a design of a user interface image displayed on the basic screen and used for receiving operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Takahiro TAKIGUCHI, Masato ONISHI, Masayoshi KOBAYASHI, Megumi KURATA, Junya HIROSE, Chie SAKAKURA
  • Publication number: 20160062628
    Abstract: An example system includes: an information processing device including a display processing unit performing processing of displaying on a display unit a basic screen containing a selection image and a background image, the selection image being constructed from one or a plurality of images used for receiving selection operation, the background image serving as a background of the selection image; and a background image transmission device transmitting the background image of the basic screen. The display processing unit of the information processing device automatically receives the background image transmitted by the background image transmission device and displays the received background image in the background of the selection image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Takahiro TAKIGUCHI, Hiroyuki KONO, Masayoshi KOBAYASHI, Takashi HOSOI
  • Publication number: 20160062568
    Abstract: An example system includes: a display processing unit performing processing of displaying on a display unit a home screen containing a selection image and a background image, the selection image being constructed from one or a plurality of images used for receiving selection operation, the background image serving as a background of the selection image; and a scroll operation reception unit receiving operation of scrolling the selection image displayed on the display unit. In accordance with the operation of scrolling received by the scroll operation reception unit, the display processing unit scrolls the selection image while animating the background image of the home screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Takahiro TAKIGUCHI, Masayoshi KOBAYASHI, Masato ONISHI
  • Patent number: 9275863
    Abstract: In a method of fabricating a semiconductor device having a MISFET of trench gate structure, a trench is formed from a major surface of a semiconductor layer of first conductivity type which serves as a drain region, in a depth direction of the direction of the semiconductor layer, a gate insulating film including a thermal oxide film and a deposited film is formed over the internal surface of the trench, and after a gate electrode has been formed in the trench, impurities are introduced into the semiconductor substrate of first conductivity type to form a semiconductor region of second conductivity type which serves as a channel forming region, and impurities are introduced into the semiconductor region of second conductivity type to form the semiconductor region of first conductivity type which serves as a source region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sumito Numazawa, Yoshito Nakazawa, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Satoshi Kudo, Yasuo Imai, Sakae Kubo, Takashi Shigematsu, Akihiro Ohnishi, Kozo Uesawa, Kentaro Oishi
  • Publication number: 20160001627
    Abstract: A stabilizer bar support device for supporting a stabilizer bar on a vehicle-body-member. The device includes a bush having a through hole, wherein the stabilizer bar is inserted; and a bracket, which has a U-shaped body-part for receiving the bush, a first fastened part extending from one end of the body-part, the first fastened part being fastened to the vehicle-body-member; a second fastened part extending from other end of the body-part, the second fastened part being fastened to the vehicle-body-member. The bush compressively deformed by being pressed by the body-part of the bracket toward the vehicle-body-member when the first and second fastened parts are fastened to the vehicle-body-member. An amount of compressive deformation of a center-part of the bush in an axial direction of the through hole is smaller than an amount of compressive deformation of an end-part of the bush in the axial direction of the through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventor: Masayoshi KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9204105
    Abstract: A preliminary image is obtained by irradiating illumination light, whose light quantity distribution is set at a standard state, to a specimen obtained by injecting fluid into a well from an illuminator capable of arbitrarily setting the light quantity distribution, for example, by a liquid crystal shutter, and a luminance distribution of the preliminary image is detected. As a result, luminance nonuniformity in the preliminary image is canceled by performing imaging with a light quantity distribution of illumination light to be incident on the well set such that an incident light amount is larger in a part with lower luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SCREEN HOldings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Fujimoto, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Takashi Miyake, Sanzo Moriwaki
  • Patent number: 9186581
    Abstract: Prior to performing download play, it is determined whether or not a slave apparatus program has been already stored in an internal memory of a slave apparatus. When not stored yet, the slave apparatus program is transmitted from a master apparatus to the slave apparatus, and stored in the internal memory of the slave apparatus. When already stored, the slave apparatus program is not transmitted from the master apparatus to the slave apparatus. Then, multiplay is performed by performing mutual communication between the master apparatus operating in accordance with a master apparatus game program and the slave apparatus operating in accordance with a slave apparatus game program. Thus, time and effort for receiving the same application program more than once are omitted, and it is possible to efficiently start a communication process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Araki, Ryutaro Takahashi, Megumi Kurata, Seiji Shibaguchi, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Teruhiko Goda, Eiji Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 9109553
    Abstract: A fuel injector includes a pilot fuel injector, configured to inject the fuel into a combustion chamber, and a main fuel injector provided coaxially with the pilot fuel injector so as to surround the pilot fuel injector and configured to have a main flow path to generate a premixed air-fuel mixture. The main flow path includes an outer main air passage located radially outwardly and configured to supply a compressed air in an axial direction into an annular premixed air-fuel mixture passage, an inner main air passage located radially inwardly and configured to supply the compressed air into the premixed air-fuel mixture passage from a radially inner side. The injector further includes a main fuel injection port to inject the fuel from an axially upstream side into the inner main air passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignees: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY
    Inventors: Ryusuke Matsuyama, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Atsushi Horikawa, Hitoshi Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20150181732
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display unit; a front cabinet including a frame portion in the form of a frame surrounding an outer edge of the display unit, a tab including a base portion connected to the frame portion and extending in a depth direction from the base portion, and a fixing portion provided in the tab; and a rear frame, and the fixing portion is fixed to the rear frame with a fastener in a direction crossing the depth direction. The fixing portion may be located deeper in the depth direction than the display unit or may be closer to the display unit than the base position is in the direction crossing the depth direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Akihiro FUJIKAWA, Shinji MORITA, Shinichi KAMEOKA, Masayoshi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20150082797
    Abstract: A fuel injection device for supplying a fuel to a compressed air includes: a pilot fuel injector; a main fuel injector located at an outer periphery of the pilot fuel injector; and an air injection unit located between an outlet end portion of the pilot fuel injector and the main fuel injector. The air injection unit includes: a partition wall plate separating the air injection unit from a combustion chamber; a flame stabilization plate provided at a downstream side of the partition wall plate; a first opening at a downstream side between the flame stabilization plate and the outlet end portion of the pilot fuel injector; and a second opening provided in the partition wall plate and through which the compressed air is supplied. The flame stabilization plate includes an inclined portion inclined in a radially outward and downstream direction with respect to an axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY
    Inventors: Ryusuke MATSUYAMA, Masayoshi KOBAYASHI, Atsushi HORIKAWA, Hitoshi FUJIWARA
  • Patent number: 8935911
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fuel spray apparatus for a gas turbine engine, including: a pilot part configured to spray a fuel to be used for a diffusion combustion; a main part provided so as to surround the pilot part and configured to inject a pre-mixed gas only upon a high power operation; and a shield body constituting a purge air passage which is configured to take therein an air flowed on an upstream side relative to a fuel injection port of the main part as a purge air, and to blow off a fuel dripping from the fuel injection port toward a main air passage of the main part. The purge air passage is provided in a position opposite to a main fuel passage communicated with the fuel injection port across the shield body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Nonaka, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Hideki Ogata
  • Publication number: 20150011081
    Abstract: In a method of fabricating a semiconductor device having a MISFET of trench gate structure, a trench is formed from a major surface of a semiconductor layer of first conductivity type which serves as a drain region, in a depth direction of the direction of the semiconductor layer, a gate insulating film including a thermal oxide film and a deposited film is formed over the internal surface of the trench, and after a gate electrode has been formed in the trench, impurities are introduced into the semiconductor substrate of first conductivity type to form a semiconductor region of second conductivity type which serves as a channel forming region, and impurities are introduced into the semiconductor region of second conductivity type to form the semiconductor region of first conductivity type which serves as a source region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Sumito NUMAZAWA, Yoshito NAKAZAWA, Masayoshi KOBAYASHI, Satoshi KUDO, Yasuo IMAI, Sakae KUBO, Takashi SHIGEMATSU, Akihiro OHNISHI, Kozo UESAWA, Kentaro OISHI
  • Patent number: 8928653
    Abstract: In a first information processing apparatus, data in a first format is stored. Further, the data in the first format is transformed into a code image by using a predetermined encoding mode. Moreover, code image data in a second format is generated by combining the code image with the data in the first format. In a second information processing apparatus, predetermined information processing is performed based on the data in the first format. In a third information processing apparatus, the code image is displayed, by a first display device, based on the code image data in the second format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shohei Mizutani, Masayoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8902218
    Abstract: In a first information processing apparatus, data in a first format is stored. Further, the data in the first format is transformed into a code image by using a predetermined encoding mode. Moreover, code image data in a second format is generated by combining the code image with the data in the first format. In a second information processing apparatus, predetermined information processing is performed based on the data in the first format. In a third information processing apparatus, the code image is displayed, by a first display device, based on the code image data in the second format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shohei Mizutani, Masayoshi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20140347595
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a rear frame, a support member and a fastening member. The rear frame is disposed on a rear side of the display device with respect to the display panel. The rear frame has a protrusion on a peripheral edge of the rear frame. The protrusion protrudes toward a front side of the display device. The support member is disposed corresponding to the peripheral edge of the rear frame. The support member supports an outer peripheral part of the display panel from the rear side. The fastening member extends in a direction substantially perpendicular to the display panel. The fastening member fastens the support member with the protrusion of the rear frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro MORI, Masayoshi KOBAYASHI, Kazuya TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20140340874
    Abstract: A heat sink includes a main component, and an attachment component to which a light source is configured to be attached. The attachment component is disposed at one end of the main component such that the heat sink is configured to dissipate heat generated by the light source. A first region of the heat sink defined by the attachment component and the one end of the main component has a surface area per unit of volume that is smaller than that of a second region of the heat sink defined by the other end of the main component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke ISHIBASHI, Masayoshi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20140340611
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a front face housing, a flat optical member, an integral metal frame, and a rear face housing. The display panel is configured to display image. The front face housing covers a peripheral edge of the display panel from a front side of the display device. The optical member is disposed opposite a rear face of the display panel. The metal frame is disposed between the peripheral edge of the display panel and a peripheral edge of the optical member. The metal frame is fastened to the front face housing. The rear face housing is attached to the front face housing to define a rear face of the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yasuhiro MORI, Akira YOKAWA, Yasuyuki FUKUMOTO, Akihiro FUJIKAWA, Masayoshi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20140225189
    Abstract: In a method of fabricating a semiconductor device having a MISFET of trench gate structure, a trench is formed from a major surface of a semiconductor layer of first conductivity type which serves as a drain region, in a depth direction of the direction of the semiconductor layer, a gate insulating film including a thermal oxide film and a deposited film is formed over the internal surface of the trench, and after a gate electrode has been formed in the trench, impurities are introduced into the semiconductor substrate of first conductivity type to form a semiconductor region of second conductivity type which serves as a channel forming region, and impurities are introduced into the semiconductor region of second conductivity type to form the semiconductor region of first conductivity type which serves as a source region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicants: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION, HITACHI ULSI SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sumito NUMAZAWA, Yoshito NAKAZAWA, Masayoshi KOBAYASHI, Satoshi KUDO, Yasuo IMAI, Sakae KUBO, Takashi SHIGEMATSU, Akihiro OHNISHI, Kozo UESAWA, Kentaro OISHI