Patents by Inventor Minoru Kobayashi

Minoru 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: 12381363
    Abstract: A first fixed terminal extends in a first direction. A second fixed terminal extends in the first direction and is disposed apart from the first fixed terminal in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. A first magnet generates a magnetic field that applies a first Lorentz force in a first oblique direction to an arc generated at a first fixed contact and a first movable contact. The first oblique direction is a direction that is inclined with respect to the first direction and oriented away from the second fixed terminal. A second magnet generates a magnetic field that applies a second Lorentz force in a second oblique direction to an arc generated at a second fixed contact and a second movable contact. The second oblique direction is a direction that is inclined with respect to the first direction and oriented away from the first fixed terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Kobayashi, Shuichi Itoda, Nanako Hinokitani, Yuta Motomura
  • Patent number: 12343423
    Abstract: A dissolvable solid article, comprising: water soluble polymer; a surfactant; at least one selected from diaminocarboxylic acid chelants and salts thereof; at least one selected from aromatic carboxylic acids and salts thereof; a phenolic derivative; at least one selected from ?, ?-unsaturated Aliphatic Carboxylic Acids, salts, and derivatives thereof; at least one selected from non-aromatic organic alpha hydroxy acids and salts thereof; wherein the dissolvable solid article has a pH of from about 3 to about 5.5 when dissolved with 20 parts water to 1 part of the dissolvable solid article. The present invention provides dissolvable solid articles which provide preservative efficacy even after dissolution of the articles, while controlling the concentrations of preservative ingredients in the solid articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ian-Ling Lim, Kai Wei Kelvin Lee, Shikhar Gupta, Minoru Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Okada, Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20250058604
    Abstract: A utility vehicle 100 includes a front seat 1 and a rear seat 2, and a front panel 31 located below a seat cushion 1t of the front seat 1 and extending upward and in a vehicle width direction from a floor 8. The front panel 31 has an air hole 35 through which conditioned air flowing rearward from a position in front with respect to the front seat 1 passes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kouji ITOU, Hiromasa KURIOKA, Minoru KOBAYASHI, Hidenori KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20250044394
    Abstract: In order to enable more accurate estimation of an interference area for communication using an acoustic wave under water, an interference area information output apparatus, which is connected to a base station performing wireless communication using an acoustic wave with a wireless communication apparatus being present under water, estimates an interference area being a range where an interference wave possibly interferes with the wireless communication, based on position information relating to an interference source emitting the interference wave being an acoustic wave possibly interfering with the wireless communication, topographic information relating to a periphery of the interference source, and sound speed distribution indicating a sound speed at each location under water in the periphery of the interference source, and outputs interference area information including information relating to the interference area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeharu TSUKAGOSHI, Hiroki Tanaka, Minoru Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20240427678
    Abstract: A failure predictor of a drive apparatus in a storage system is detected more accurately. A control apparatus 1 for a storage system S stores a learning model(s) 132M for evaluating response performance of a drive apparatus 3 with respect to execution of a command relating to input and output by the control apparatus 1. The control apparatus 1 acquires operation information of the drive apparatus 3 and inputs specified information regarding commands, which is included in the operation information, to the learning model 132M. The control apparatus 1 judges a failure predictor of the drive apparatus 3 on the basis of output relating to the response performance by the learning model 132M in response to the input of the specified information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Yuki KOTAKE, Akihiro SHIKANO, Atsushi SATO, Mizuho MOGI, Minoru KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240295567
    Abstract: Provided are: a novel marker useful for measuring hypoxia or predicting the risk of exacerbation of a hypoxia-related pathological condition; a hypoxia measurement method or a method for predicting the risk of exacerbation of a pathological condition using the marker as an indicator; a composition for measuring hypoxia or predicting the risk of exacerbation of a pathological condition; a method for screening a candidate substance for a therapeutic agent for a hypoxia-related pathological condition; a composition for ameliorating a hypoxia-related pathological condition; and the like. A method for measuring hypoxia in a subject or a method for predicting the risk of exacerbation of a pathological condition, each method comprising the step of measuring the amount of SPINK1 in a sample collected from a subject. Use of SPINK1 as a biomarker for measuring hypoxia or for predicting the risk of exacerbation of a pathological condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi HARADA, Minoru KOBAYASHI, Tatsuya SUWA
  • Publication number: 20240258751
    Abstract: A power outlet includes a case, a contact device, an operation member, a moving mechanism, a return spring, and a holding mechanism. The contact device includes a fixed contact, a movable contact, and a movable piece. The moving mechanism moves the movable piece in response to operation of the operation member. The moving mechanism includes a movable member and a return spring. The movable member is movable between a closed position in which the movable contact is in contact with the fixed contact and an open position in which the movable contact is separated from the fixed contact. The return spring urges the movable member toward the open position. The holding mechanism is configured to hold the movable member at the closed position, and releases a holding state in which the movable member is held at the closed position in response to operation of the operation member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuhiro IKEMOTO, Kyoya ICHIRAKU, Yuta MOTOMURA, Koichi FURUSAWA, Yuki YAMAMOTO, Minoru KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240230936
    Abstract: A fiber sensing system according to the present disclosure includes a submarine cable, and a plurality of relaying apparatuses being connected in series to one another via the submarine cable. The relaying apparatus includes a DAS interrogator being connected to a relaying apparatus at a subsequent stage via a sensing optical fiber in the submarine cable, and a terminator being connected to a relaying apparatus at a preceding stage via the sensing optical fiber. The DAS interrogator outputs probe light to the sensing optical fiber. The terminator terminates probe light being output from the DAS interrogator in the relaying apparatus at the preceding stage to the sensing optical fiber. The DAS interrogator receives backscattered light of probe light from the sensing optical fiber, and acquires the DAS data from the received backscattered light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi EMURA, Yuta Sawai, Hiroki Tanaka, Minoru Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20240134077
    Abstract: A fiber sensing system according to the present disclosure includes a submarine cable, and a plurality of relaying apparatuses being connected in series to one another via the submarine cable. The relaying apparatus includes a DAS interrogator being connected to a relaying apparatus at a subsequent stage via a sensing optical fiber in the submarine cable, and a terminator being connected to a relaying apparatus at a preceding stage via the sensing optical fiber. The DAS interrogator outputs probe light to the sensing optical fiber. The terminator terminates probe light being output from the DAS interrogator in the relaying apparatus at the preceding stage to the sensing optical fiber. The DAS interrogator receives backscattered light of probe light from the sensing optical fiber, and acquires the DAS data from the received backscattered light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi EMURA, Yuta Sawai, Hiroki Tanaka, Minoru Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20240001552
    Abstract: A teaching method of teaching a robot having a robot arm, includes a first step of storing a position or an attitude of a control point set for the robot arm when a first condition that a movement velocity of the control point is equal to or lower than a predetermined first velocity or an angular velocity of the control point is equal to or lower than a predetermined first angular velocity is satisfied during a teaching motion of the robot arm, a second step, when a number of specific control points as the stored control points is equal to or larger than N, N being an arbitrary integer of two or more, of setting an area including the specific control points, and a third step of setting a teaching candidate point within the area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Masaaki HAGIO, Minoru KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230420893
    Abstract: A first fixed terminal extends in a first direction. A second fixed terminal extends in the first direction and is disposed apart from the first fixed terminal in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. A first magnet generates a magnetic field that applies a first Lorentz force in a first oblique direction to an arc generated at a first fixed contact and a first movable contact. The first oblique direction is a direction that is inclined with respect to the first direction and oriented away from the second fixed terminal. A second magnet generates a magnetic field that applies a second Lorentz force in a second oblique direction to an arc generated at a second fixed contact and a second movable contact. The second oblique direction is a direction that is inclined with respect to the first direction and oriented away from the first fixed terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Minoru KOBAYASHI, Shuichi ITODA, Nanako HINOKITANI, Yuta MOTOMURA
  • Publication number: 20230411886
    Abstract: A plunger is movable between a first position and a second position. The plunger separates a first movable contact from a first fixed contact and separates a second movable contact from a second fixed contact at the first position. The plunger presses a first movable piece toward a first fixed terminal to make the first movable contact into contact with the first fixed contact, and presses a second movable piece toward a second fixed terminal to make the second movable contact into contact with the second fixed contact at the second position. The plunger moves from the first position to the second position by being pressed by a pressing portion of an electric plug inserted into a third insertion port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Minoru KOBAYASHI, Nanako HINOKITANI, Shuichi ITODA
  • Patent number: 11826439
    Abstract: Disclosed is a dissolvable solid article, comprising by weight of the article: from about 10% to about 50% of a water soluble polymer; from about 20% to about 80% of a surfactant; from about 0.5% to about 2% of diaminocarboxylic acid chelants and salts thereof having an average molecular weight in acid form of from about 250 to about 450 daltons and having a weighted log P value at pH 4 of from about ?12 to about ?7; from about 0.1% to about 6% of an aromatic carboxylic acid and salts thereof having an average molecular weight in acid form of from about 100 to about 400 daltons and having a weighted log P value at pH 4 of from about ?2 to about 4; from about 0.1% to about 18% of an non-aromatic organic alpha hydroxy acid and salts thereof; wherein the dissolvable solid article has a pH of from about 3 to about 5.1 when dissolved with 30 parts water to 1 part of the dissolvable solid article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ian-Ling Lim, Kai Wei Kelvin Lee, Shikhar Gupta, Minoru Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Okada, Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr., ChinXin Woo
  • Patent number: 11697698
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a method for producing a copolymer of ethylene and an allyl monomer having a polar group represented by general formula (1), or a copolymer of ethylene, an allyl monomer having a polar group represented by general formula (1), and other monomers, wherein the copolymer is produced in the presence of a boron compound having a boron-hydrogen bond or a boron-carbon bond (for example, a compound represented by general formula (2)) by using a metal complex represented by general formula (C1) as a polymerization catalyst (the symbols in the formulas are as described in the description). According to the present invention, a copolymer of ethylene and an allyl monomer can be efficiently produced with high catalytic activity, wherein the copolymer has a polar group and can be used in various applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, SHOWA DENKO K.K., JAPAN POLYETHYLENE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyoko Nozaki, Shingo Ito, Junichi Kuroda, Yoshikuni Okumura, Shinya Hayashi, Minoru Kobayashi, Yuichiro Yasukawa
  • Patent number: 11442259
    Abstract: An optical microscope according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a light source; a first scanner to scan a spot position of a light beam on a sample; an objective lens to focus the light beam deflected by the first scanner and cause the light beam to be made incident on the sample; a spectroscope including a slit on an incident side which an outgoing light emitted from an area on the sample onto which the light beam has been illuminated enters; a detector configured to detect an outgoing light from the spectroscope; and a first relay optical system including a first off-axis parabolic mirror that is arranged in an optical path from the first scanner to the objective lens and reflects the light beam deflected by the first scanner and a second off-axis parabolic mirror that reflects the light beam reflected in the first off-axis parabolic mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: NANOPHOTON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Kobayashi, Shogo Kawano, Taisuke Ota, Shunichiro Matsuzaka, Yusuke Shiozaki, Shota Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20220226227
    Abstract: A dissolvable solid article, comprising: water soluble polymer; a surfactant; at least one selected from diaminocarboxylic acid chelants and salts thereof; at least one selected from aromatic carboxylic acids and salts thereof; a phenolic derivative; at least one selected from ?, ?-unsaturated Aliphatic Carboxylic Acids, salts, and derivatives thereof; at least one selected from non-aromatic organic alpha hydroxy acids and salts thereof; wherein the dissolvable solid article has a pH of from about 3 to about 5.5 when dissolved with 20 parts water to 1 part of the dissolvable solid article. The present invention provides dissolvable solid articles which provide preservative efficacy even after dissolution of the articles, while controlling the concentrations of preservative ingredients in the solid articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Ian-Ling Lim, Kai Wei Kelvin Lee, Shikhar Gupta, Minoru Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Okada, Robert Wayne Glenn, JR.
  • Patent number: 11352453
    Abstract: A catalyst for olefin polymerization that contains a metal complex represented by general formula (C1) and a method for producing polyethylene, a copolymer of ethylene and an olefin having a polar group represented by general formula (1), or a copolymer of ethylene, an olefin having a polar group represented by general formula (1) and another monomer, using the aforementioned metal complex as a polymerization catalyst, wherein the symbols in formula (C1) and formula (1) are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, SHOWA DENKO K.K., JAPAN POLYETHYLENE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyoko Nozaki, Shingo Ito, Junichi Kuroda, Yoshikuni Okumura, Shinya Hayashi, Yumiko Minami, Minoru Kobayashi, Yuichiro Yasukawa
  • Publication number: 20220071857
    Abstract: Disclosed is a dissolvable solid article, comprising by weight of the article: from about 10% to about 50% of a water soluble polymer; from about 20% to about 80% of a surfactant; from about 0.5% to about 2% of diaminocarboxylic acid chelants and salts thereof having an average molecular weight in acid form of from about 250 to about 450 daltons and having a weighted log P value at pH 4 of from about ?12 to about ?7; from about 0.1% to about 6% of an aromatic carboxylic acid and salts thereof having an average molecular weight in acid form of from about 100 to about 400 daltons and having a weighted log P value at pH 4 of from about ?2 to about 4; from about 0.1% to about 18% of an non-aromatic organic alpha hydroxy acid and salts thereof; wherein the dissolvable solid article has a pH of from about 3 to about 5.1 when dissolved with 30 parts water to 1 part of the dissolvable solid article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Ian-Ling Lim, Kai Wei Kelvin Lee, Shikhar Gupta, Minoru Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Okada, Robert Wayne Glenn, JR., ChinXin Woo
  • Patent number: 11248074
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a copolymer of ethylene and an allyl monomer that is represented by formula (1) and has a polar group, or a copolymer of ethylene, the allyl monomer that is represented by formula (1) and has a polar group, and another monomer. This production method is characterized by using a metal complex, which is represented by general formula (C1), as a polymerization catalyst and by having a silane compound, which is represented by general formula (2) and has a silicon-hydrogen bond, coexist with the metal complex. (In the formulae, the symbols are as defined in the description.) According to the present invention, a copolymer of an allyl monomer that has a polar group is able to be produced with high catalytic activity, said copolymer being capable of having various applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, SHOWA DENKO K.K., JAPAN POLYETHYLENE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Ito, Kyoko Nozaki, Junichi Kuroda, Yoshikuni Okumura, Shinya Hayashi, Minoru Kobayashi, Yuichiro Yasukawa
  • Patent number: D1010506
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: Minoru Kobayashi