Patents by Inventor Michitaka KOBAYASHI

Michitaka 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: 20240079208
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes: a processing container; a substrate holding unit that disposes a plurality of substrates in multiple tiers and is inserted into the processing container; a rotary shaft that rotates the substrate holding unit; a gas supply unit that supplies a processing gas into the processing container; an exhaust unit that exhausts the inside of the processing container; a plurality of electrodes disposed on the outer side of the processing container and arranged in the circumferential direction of the processing container; and a radio-frequency power supply that applies a radio-frequency power to the plurality of electrodes, thereby generating capacitively coupled plasma in the processing container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Takeshi KOBAYASHI, Michitaka AITA
  • Publication number: 20210005408
    Abstract: Provided is a lever switch with an improved operation feeling. In the lever switch, a clicking surface of the click feeling generator abuts with an end portion of a switch moving body turning about a turn fulcrum in response to an operation of an operation lever, and generates a click feeling by causing a reaction force against the operation of the operation lever. A region of the clicking surface forms a shape of a curved face convex toward the turn fulcrum, where the region ranges between a first position where the reaction force starts to decrease from the peak and a second position where the reaction force becomes zero, in a stroke in which the switch moving body turns from a first angle to a second angle. The radius of curvature of the region is the maximum at a portion adjoining the first position in the region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Ryohei KANEDA, Fuminori TAKAYAMA, Michitaka KOBAYASHI, Masahiko SHIMADA
  • Patent number: 10800324
    Abstract: In an auto cancel mechanism for a turn signal switch device, a click stop mechanism includes a click feeling-generating body formed from an elastic material and supported on a switch case, and a click pin supported on a switch actuator and resiliently pressed against the click feeling-generating body. Since the click feeling-generating body is formed integrally with an elastic stopper part disposed between a guide pin and a front end of a guide groove, the guide pin collides with the elastic stopper part without colliding with the front end of the guide groove, and noise generated by the collision is reduced. Moreover, since the elastic stopper part is formed integrally by utilizing the click feeling-generating body, it is possible to suppress an increase in the number of components and the number of assembly steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: Toyo Denso Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fuminori Takayama, Ryohei Kaneda, Michitaka Kobayashi, Yudai Hirohata, Masahiko Shimada
  • Publication number: 20200282900
    Abstract: In an auto cancel mechanism for a turn signal switch device, a click stop mechanism includes a click feeling-generating body formed from an elastic material and supported on a switch case, and a click pin supported on a switch actuator and resiliently pressed against the click feeling-generating body. Since the click feeling-generating body is formed integrally with an elastic stopper part disposed between a guide pin and a front end of a guide groove, the guide pin collides with the elastic stopper part without colliding with the front end of the guide groove, and noise generated by the collision is reduced. Moreover, since the elastic stopper part is formed integrally by utilizing the click feeling-generating body, it is possible to suppress an increase in the number of components and the number of assembly steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Fuminori TAKAYAMA, Ryohei KANEDA, Michitaka KOBAYASHI, Yudai HIROHATA, Masahiko SHIMADA