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: 20140225331
    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: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Hozumi, Taiki Koyama, Minoru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8803458
    Abstract: A motor drive apparatus includes an inverter which has an upper and lower arms each provided with a plurality of semiconductor switching devices and free-wheeling diodes connected in reverse parallel with respective ones of the plurality of semiconductor switching devices, wherein the semiconductor switching devices are controlled on and off to convert DC to AC, a short-circuiting unit which includes a selector switch between motor phase windings of a synchronous motor, the selector switch being opened and closed under the control of a command, and a dynamic braking control unit which, upon reception of a dynamic braking start command, performs control so as to turn on all of the semiconductor switching devices provided in either one of the upper and lower arms and to turn off all of the semiconductor switching devices provided in the other arm, and thereafter controls the short-circuiting unit so that the selector switch is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Horikoshi, Hiroyasu Sato, Minoru Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20140132955
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a Raman microscope and a Raman spectrometry measuring method, both of which can make a measurement with high wavenumber resolution. The Raman microscope according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a pump light source 12 for emitting pump light as continuous light; a relaxation light source 11 for emitting relaxation light to induce stimulated emission in a sampled a dichroic mirror 14 for irradiating the relaxation light and the pump light to the sample 17; a spectrograph 32 for spectrally separating Raman scattered light generated in the sample 17; and a detector 33 for detecting the Raman scattered light spectrally separated in the spectrograph 32.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Inventors: Shogo Kawano, Taisuke Ota, Minoru Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20140063226
    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: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: NANOPHOTON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawata, Minoru Kobayashi, Taisuke Ota, Tomoya Uchiyama, Naoyoshi Kubota, Shogo Kawano
  • Patent number: 8651846
    Abstract: A reference physical quantity and a current physical quantity are successively compared with each other in association with an elapsed time during which a moving part operates or an operating position of the moving part, and a deviation of the physical quantity is determined. An average of absolute values of the determined deviations of the physical quantities is calculated, and a threshold corresponding to the elapsed time during which the moving part operates or the operating position of the moving part is calculated such that the threshold increases as the calculated absolute value increases. Abnormality is detected if the calculated threshold is exceeded by the determined deviation of the physical quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Junpei Maruyama, Minoru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8636495
    Abstract: A movable unit in an injection molding machine is started to operate and the current physical quantity and the current time (or current position of the movable unit) are detected. The current physical quantity is stored as a reference physical quantity in association with the elapsed time of operation of the movable unit (or position of the movable unit). A deviation of the current physical quantity from the reference physical quantity is calculated and stored, a distribution index value is then calculated from the physical quantity deviations in the first to n-th cycles, and a threshold value is determined from the distribution index value. When the deviation exceeds the threshold value, alarm processing is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Junpei Maruyama, Minoru Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20140002819
    Abstract: An optical microscope capable of performing measurement with a high resolution and a spectrometry method are provided. A spectrometry device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a Y-scanning unit that scans a spot position of the light beam on the sample, a beam splitter that separates, among the light beam incident on the sample, outgoing light, the outgoing light being emitted with a different wavelength, a spectroscope that spatially disperses the outgoing light separated by the beam splitter according to the wavelength, a detector that detects the outgoing light dispersed by the spectroscope, and a pinhole array 30 disposed on an incoming side of the spectroscope, a plurality of pinholes being arranged in the pinhole array, the plurality of pinholes being adapted to allow outgoing light to pass therethrough to the spectroscope side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: NANOPHOTON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawata, Minoru Kobayashi, Taisuke Ota
  • Publication number: 20140002905
    Abstract: A light blocking member (18) for application, to a microscope is provided. Although it is producible at a sufficiently low cost, it can sufficiently block ambient light, and does not require a special operation when a sample (16) is placed on a stage (2) or the sample is taken out from above the stage. The light blocking member (18) is formed from a soft polymer, has an inner peripheral surface which is cylindrical in at least an upper part thereof, and is held on an objective lens assembly by fitting the upper part onto the outer peripheral surface of the objective lens assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: NANOPHOTON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawata, Minoru Kobayashi, Naoyoshi Kubota
  • Patent number: 8592420
    Abstract: Anxiety disorders, such as panic disorder, agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, social phobia, post-traumatic stress disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, specific phobia, or the like, are treated by administering an effective amount of at least one adenosine A2A receptor antagonist to a patient in need thereof, optionally in combination with an anxiolytic(s) other than the adenosine A2A receptor antagonist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kase, Naoki Seno, Shizuo Shiozaki, Minoru Kobayashi, Junya Kase
  • Publication number: 20130281529
    Abstract: It is intended to provide an eye drop preparation capable of preventing not only degradation of latanoprost in water but also adsorption of latanoprost onto a plastic container so that a decrease in latanoprost content thereof is satisfactorily prevented. The eye drop preparation contains an ophthalmic solution composition containing components (A) and (B) and packed in a plastic container: (A) latanoprost; and (B) a nonionic surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Takahito Kimura, Joshu Watanabe, Minoru Kobayashi, Makoto Seki, Takao Shimatani, Chiharu Takagi
  • Patent number: 8550181
    Abstract: An electric tool has a rib projecting from an inner peripheral surface of the electric tool, and a trigger switch. The trigger switch has a housing having a housing venthole, a contact mechanism disposed in the housing, and a trigger that, when depressed into the housing, drives the contact mechanism. The housing of the trigger switch is bonded to the rib. The rib has a rib venthole. The housing venthole is communicated with the rib venthole. The rib venthole is covered with a filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Baba, Yasushi Kamihashi
  • Publication number: 20130237526
    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: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kase, Minoru Kobayashi, Shizuo Shiozaki, Akihisa Mori, Naoki Seno
  • Patent number: 8518631
    Abstract: Provided is a nonlinear optical material, an optical recording material, an optical recording method, a photosensitive material, a photopolymerization initiator, and a photosensitizer. One exemplary aspect of the present invention is a photosensitive material used for photolithography for forming a pattern by irradiating a photoresist with excitation light which includes a donor molecule 11 that is excited by the excitation light, and an acceptor molecule 12 that is excited by energy transfer or charge transfer from the excited donor 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignees: Osaka University, Nanophoton Corporation
    Inventors: Katsumasa Fujita, Minoru Kobayashi, Kazuya Kikuchi, Shin Mizukami, Satoshi Kawata, Shogo Kawano
  • Publication number: 20130162990
    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: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: Nanophoton Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Kobayashi, Taisuke Ota
  • Publication number: 20130156875
    Abstract: A movable unit in an injection molding machine is started to operate and the current physical quantity and the current time (or current position of the movable unit) are detected. The current physical quantity is stored as a reference physical quantity in association with the elapsed time of operation of the movable unit (or position of the movable unit). A deviation of the current physical quantity from the reference physical quantity is calculated and stored, a distribution index value is then calculated from the physical quantity deviations in the first to n-th cycles, and a threshold value is determined from the distribution index value. When the deviation exceeds the threshold value, alarm processing is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junpei MARUYAMA, Minoru KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 8440678
    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: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kase, Minoru Kobayashi, Shizuo Shiozaki, Akihisa Mori, Naoki Seno
  • Publication number: 20130095200
    Abstract: A reference physical quantity and a current physical quantity are successively compared with each other in association with an elapsed time during which a moving part operates or an operating position of the moving part, and a deviation of the physical quantity is determined. An average of absolute values of the determined deviations of the physical quantities is calculated, and a threshold corresponding to the elapsed time during which the moving part operates or the operating position of the moving part is calculated such that the threshold increases as the calculated absolute value increases. Abnormality is detected if the calculated threshold is exceeded by the determined deviation of the physical quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junpei MARUYAMA, Minoru KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20130062171
    Abstract: A long-life cover is provided whose outer circumferential edge is not warped upward and not easily damaged even when an operation shaft is pushed down to a final position. Therefore, the cover is to cover the operation shaft protruding from a housing of an electric device and is operable in the axis direction. Particularly, the cover includes a tubular pressing portion to which a pressing force is applied by operating the operation shaft, and a tubular elastic deformation portion continuous to a lower edge of an outer circumference of the tubular pressing portion, the tubular elastic deformation portion being thinner than the tubular pressing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Inventors: Minoru KOBAYASHI, Taiki KOYAMA
  • Patent number: D684506
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Minoru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: D685682
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norikazu Matsumura, Minoru Kobayashi