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).

  • Publication number: 20170057338
    Abstract: A side covering body for a motorcycle includes an under-the-seat covering for covering a vertical gap between a seat and a vehicle body frame from an outer side and a rear covering disposed rearwardly of the under-the-seat covering. The under-the-seat covering has a front portion formed with a shroud portion that covers an outer side of a radiator and guides the incoming wind towards the radiator. The under-the-seat covering and the rear covering are connected together via a joint portion, while having respective outer side surfaces held substantially in flush with each other. The joint portion has an upper end positioned rearwardly of an intermediate portion of the seat with respect to a forward and rearward direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Inagaki, Minoru Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20170063205
    Abstract: An apparatus with a motor drive device is provided with a support plate including an opening part for supporting the motor drive device. The support plate includes a first edge part around the opening part and a second edge part on the opposite side of the first edge part. The motor drive device includes a first recessed part formed on one end part in a predetermined direction, and a second recessed part formed on the other end part on the opposite side of the one end part. The first edge part is inserted into the first recessed part, and the second edge part is inserted to the second recessed part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Kobayashi, Tsutomu Shikagawa, Kiichi Inaba
  • Patent number: 9582088
    Abstract: A touch screen (60) disposed on a display surface of a display means (58) is used as an inputting means so that a variety of actions of a microscope can be controlled with sufficient ease and precision. A variety of actions are controlled based on an operator's various finger gestures used on the touch screen disposed on the display surface of the display means, for example, making contact by a finger (tap), making two consecutive contacts by a finger (double-tap), making contact by a finger, and moving the finger without releasing it (drag), making contact by a finger and maintaining the contact for a predetermined time or longer (touch-and-hold), making simultaneous contact by two fingers, and increasing spacing between the fingers (pinch-out) or decreasing the spacing (pinch-in), and making simultaneous contact by two fingers, and moving the fingers in parallel (double-drag).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: NANOPHOTON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawata, Minoru Kobayashi, Taisuke Ota, Tomoya Uchiyama, Naoyoshi Kubota, Shogo Kawano
  • Patent number: 9553377
    Abstract: A terminal connection structure has a housing, a base housed in the housing, and a terminal unit having a pair of tab terminals disposed on the base, a pair of terminal portions disposed in the tab terminals in parallel, each of which is exposed from the housing and configured to be connected to an external terminal, and a terminal plate sandwiched between the pair of tab terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Taiki Koyama, Minoru Kobayashi, Akihiro Hozumi
  • Patent number: 9530579
    Abstract: Provided is a bypass switch with the closing time shortened. A bypass switch using a vacuum valve having a fixed contact and a movable contact includes: an insulating rod having one end side connected to the movable contact; a closing spring fitted to the other end side of the insulating rod, and having a closing function to close the contacts and a contact-pressing function to apply pressure to the contacts; and an operation unit having a latch function to keep a contact-opened state, and connected to the other end side of the insulating rod, wherein the insulating rod, the closing spring, and the operation unit are arranged in series along the axial direction of the vacuum valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru Inaba, Nobumoto Tohya, Minoru Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20160365202
    Abstract: A pair of open/close and current-passing movable contact pieces is supported on a movable contact terminal such that the pair is rotatable along with the reciprocation of an operating element. An open/close movable contact is mounted on the open/close movable contact piece and is rotatably biased by a spring member. A current-passing movable contact is mounted on the current-passing movable contact piece. By moving the operating element, a restriction imposed on a position of the operating element is released so that the open/close movable contact piece is rotated by a spring force of the spring member whereby the open/close movable contact is brought into pressure contact with an open/close fixed contact mounted on a fixed contact terminal. The current-passing movable contact piece is rotated by the operating element so that the current-passing movable contact is brought into pressure contact with a current-passing fixed contact mounted on the fixed contact terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Taiki KOYAMA, Minoru KOBAYASHI, Akihiro HOZUMI
  • Publication number: 20160358728
    Abstract: An operating-lever sealing structure has an operating lever turnably attached to a housing of a switch, a shaft portion projected immediately below a guard portion of the operating lever that is turnably supported in an operation hole made in a bottom surface of a fitting recess of the housing, and a sealing ring that is sandwiched between the bottom surface of the fitting recess and a ceiling surface of the guard portion of the operating lever.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Hozumi, Taiki Koyama, Minoru Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20160264699
    Abstract: To provide an industrially useful ?-olefin•((meth)acrylic acid)-based olefin copolymer having both a high molecular weight and a high comonomer content, a catalyst component capable of realizing a production of two different kinds of ?-olefin•((meth)acrylic acid)-based olefin copolymers, and a production process using the catalyst. An ?-olefin•((meth)acrylic acid)-based olefin copolymer is produced by using a metal complex complexed with a ligand represented by the following formula (Y is phosphorus or arsenic) for a catalyst composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicants: Japan Polyethylene Corporation, Japan Polypropylene Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru KOBAYASHI, Hideshi UCHINO, Kazuhiro YAMAMOTO, Toshiaki EGASHIRA, Hiroyuki SHIMIZU, Tetsuya MORIOKA
  • Patent number: 9435741
    Abstract: A spectrometry device according to an aspect of the present invention is including a light source (101), a lens 104 concentrating a light beam from the light source (101) on a reference sample (120), an objective lens (106) concentrating a light beam that has passed through the first lens (104) on a measurement sample (121), a spectroscope (109) dispersing light having a different wavelength from that of the light beam generated in the measurement sample (121) and the reference sample (120) by irradiation of the light beam into a spectrum, a detector (110) detecting light that is dispersed by the spectroscope (109), and a beam splitter (103) separating an optical path of light from the reference sample (120) and the measurement sample (121) toward the spectroscope (109) from an optical path of a light beam that propagates from the light source (101) toward the measurement sample (121).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Nanophoton Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Kobayashi, Taisuke Ota
  • Publication number: 20160211088
    Abstract: Provided is a bypass switch with the closing time shortened. A bypass switch using a vacuum valve having a fixed contact and a movable contact includes: an insulating rod having one end side connected to the movable contact; a closing spring fitted to the other end side of the insulating rod, and having a closing function to close the contacts and a contact-pressing function to apply pressure to the contacts; and an operation unit having a latch function to keep a contact-opened state, and connected to the other end side of the insulating rod, wherein the insulating rod, the closing spring, and the operation unit are arranged in series along the axial direction of the vacuum valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru INABA, Nobumoto TOHYA, Minoru KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20160185348
    Abstract: After determination of from which side, right or left, a second vehicle is approaching, a position of a collision point is determined, a position of a stop point is set from the determined collision point, and a warning is given at a position and timing of a warning point which is set to allow a first vehicle to stop before the set stop point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miura, Takeshi Chiba, Masashi Manita, Yuki Sakai, Minoru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9376459
    Abstract: To provide an industrially useful ?-olefin.((meth)acrylic acid)-based olefin copolymer having both a high molecular weight and a high comonomer content, a catalyst component capable of realizing a production of two different kinds of ?-olefin.((meth)acrylic acid)-based olefin copolymers, and a production process using the catalyst. An ?-olefin.((meth)acrylic acid)-based olefin copolymer is produced by using a metal complex complexed with a ligand represented by the following formula (Y is phosphorus or arsenic) for a catalyst composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignees: Japan Polyethylene Corporation, Japan Polypropylene Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Kobayashi, Hideshi Uchino, Kazuhiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9238033
    Abstract: The present invention provides pharmaceutical compositions, which are useful for treatment of depression and the like, and which comprises a compound having an adenosine A2A receptor antagonistic activity such as (E)-8-(3,4-dimethoxystyryl)-1,3-diethyl-7-methyl-3,7-dihydro-1H-purine-2,6-dione or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and an antidepressant drug (for example, a tricyclic antidepressant, a tetracyclic antidepressant, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, a selective noradrenalin reuptake inhibitor, a dopamine reuptake inhibitor, a serotonin-noradrenalin reuptake inhibitor, monoamine oxidase inhibitor, a 5-HT2 antagonist or the like), and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: KYOWA HAKKO KIRIN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kase, Minoru Kobayashi, Shizuo Shiozaki, Akihisa Mori, Naoki Seno
  • Patent number: 9188538
    Abstract: A Raman microscope and a Raman spectrometric measuring method achieve measurements with high wavenumber resolution. The Raman microscope includes a pump light source for emitting pump light as continuous light; a relaxation light source for emitting relaxation light to induce stimulated emission in a sample; a dichroic mirror for irradiating the relaxation light and the pump light to the sample; a spectrograph for spectrally separating Raman scattered light generated in the sample; and a detector for detecting the Raman scattered light spectrally separated in the spectrograph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Nanophoton Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo Kawano, Taisuke Ota, Minoru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9170732
    Abstract: An information input device includes a display, an input unit, an input direction determining unit, a tag arranging unit and a movable direction determining unit. The movable direction determining unit specifies, based on a first operation position on an input area of the input unit, a division part including the first operation position from among plural division parts on the input area. The tag arranging unit displays a tag indicating a slide operation pattern of an operator associated with the specified division part in the vicinity of a selection operation object or on the selection operation object on a display area of the display. The input direction determining unit detects, based on a second operation position on the input area, a slide operation pattern of the operator, and determines whether or not the detected slide operation pattern matches the slide operation pattern indicated by the tag within a certain range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuhiko Maeda, Hiroshi Chigira, Minoru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9165689
    Abstract: The present invention provides an operation method of a plant which has a low-pressure feed water heater, a deaerator and a high-pressure feed water heater sequentially arranged in a feed water pipe reaching a steam generator from a condenser, and leads high-temperature feed water to the steam generator, wherein an oxidant is injected onto a surface of a structural material from an oxidant injection line in order to form a film that suppresses an elution of an element constituting the structural material such as the feed water pipe, the low-pressure feed water heater, the deaerator and the high-pressure feed water heater, which come in contact with the high-temperature feed water, and a corrosion suppression substance is further introduced from a corrosion suppression substance introduction line in order to deposit the corrosion suppression substance on a surface of the structural material in which corrosion accelerated by a flow of the feed water occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Osamu Shibasaki, Masato Okamura, Seiji Yamamoto, Toyoaki Miyazaki, Kenji Yamazaki, Tetsuji Kaneko, Minoru Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20150188242
    Abstract: A terminal connection structure has a housing, a base housed in the housing, and a terminal unit having a pair of tab terminals disposed on the base, a pair of terminal portions disposed in the tab terminals in parallel, each of which is exposed from the housing and configured to be connected to an external terminal, and a terminal plate sandwiched between the pair of tab terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Taiki Koyama, Minoru Kobayashi, Akihiro Hozumi
  • Publication number: 20150004344
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polar group-containing olefin copolymer (A?) which is produced through polymerization using a transition metal catalyst, which has a weight-average molecular weight falling within a specific range and which contains a polar group-containing monomer within a specific range; a multinary polar olefin copolymer (A?) indispensably containing a polar monomer component that has a norbornene skeleton and a carboxyl group or an acid anhydride group and having three or more types of monomer units; and a resin composition (C) containing a specific amount of a polar group-containing olefin copolymer (A) and a specific amount of an olefin resin (B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicants: JAPAN POLYPROPYLENE CORPORATION, JAPAN POLYETHYLENE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunari Abe, Minoru Kobayashi, Hideshi Uchino, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Tetsuya Morioka, Naoshi Iwama
  • Patent number: 8809712
    Abstract: A switch designed for dustproof performance by minimizing a route of entry of dust from a terminal portion, includes a plurality of terminals, a movable contact piece that is supported in a manner allowing displacement between a non-conduction position and a conduction position, and a contact actuating member that displaces the movable contact piece in response to an externally applied pressing force. A main body of the switch includes an opening communicating with the outside, partition walls formed between the opening and the movable contact piece, barrier walls formed between the opening and the movable contact piece, and passages formed by ends of the barrier walls and walls that are opposite the ends of the barrier walls. Each partition wall extends across the corresponding passage and each terminal includes a connection portion and a blocking portion that is bent from the connection portion and blocks the corresponding passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Kobayashi, Taiki Koyama
  • Patent number: D762517
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Hashimoto, Minoru Kobayashi, Norikazu Matsumura