Patents by Inventor Ryo Kobayashi

Ryo 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: 20220143750
    Abstract: A nozzle for laser machining is provided with a flange portion and formed in an annular shape, and includes a first communication hole communicating between a first end portion and a second end portion on a side opposite to the first end portion, a circumferential groove portion provided between the flange portion and the second end portion, and a plurality of second communication holes communicating between a surface of the flange portion on a first end portion side and a side surface of the circumferential groove portion on the first end portion side. A side surface of the circumferential groove portion on a second end portion side extends so that the plurality of second communication holes are invisible from the second end portion side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Ryo KOBAYASHI, Akihiko SUGIYAMA, Yasuhito BABA
  • Publication number: 20220134785
    Abstract: A roll sheet with a continuous sheet wound in a roll form is rotated in a forward direction to supply the sheet to a printing unit. A sensor whose output is changed in accordance with a distance between the sensor and the sheet is used. A rotation direction of the roll sheet is switched from an opposite direction to the forward direction on the basis of the output of the sensor during rotation of the roll sheet in the opposite direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Masato Eiyama, Yuki Igarashi, Masashi Kamada, Masashi Negishi, Ryoya Shinjo, Ryo Kobayashi, Tomohiro Suzuki, Tsutomu Obata
  • Publication number: 20220097995
    Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises a sheet eject tray; a movable guide arranged on an upstream side of the sheet eject tray in a direction of conveyance of a sheet and is configured to be able to move to a protruding position and a retracted position; and a driving mechanism configured to cause the movable guide to move to the protruding position when a leading edge of a sheet is conveyed along the movable guide and cause the movable guide to move to the retracted position when a trailing edge of a sheet is conveyed along the movable guide, wherein the protruding position includes a first position at which the movable guide presses a sheet to the sheet eject tray and a second position between the first position and the retracted position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Akira Fujikake, Tomohiro Suzuki, Waichiro Saiki, Ryo Kobayashi, Takeshi Koda, Toshiro Sugiyama, Tomoyuki Nagase
  • Publication number: 20220097416
    Abstract: A printing apparatus, comprises a first circuit board configured to control a first motor and a printing unit that performs printing to a print medium, a second circuit board configured to control a second motor, a sensor configured to output a sensor signal used to control the first motor and the second motor, and a signal line configured to input the sensor signal from the sensor to the first circuit board and the second circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki Kamio, Ryo Kobayashi, Kenji Sugiyama, Waichiro Saiki, Tomohiro Suzuki, Takeshi Koda, Toshiro Sugiyama, Tomoyuki Nagase
  • Patent number: 11274670
    Abstract: A blower includes a centrifugal fan and a partition wall disposed in a suction space in the centrifugal fan. The partition wall has a base portion extending along a fan central axis to partition the suction space into a first space for a first fluid and a second space for a second fluid. The partition wall has an enlarged portion connected to an end of the base portion on another side of the fan central axis. The enlarged portion covers a part of a fan boss. A clearance passage is defined between the enlarged portion and the fan boss and has a first space side opening and a second space side opening. The enlarged portion is biased in the suction space to the second space such that a pressure at the second space side opening is less than a pressure at the first space side opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kono, Ryo Kobayashi, Yasue Yonezu, Takahiro Nakajima, Yuki Tsumagari, Tomohide Shindo
  • Patent number: 11273654
    Abstract: A roll sheet with a continuous sheet wound in a roll form is rotated in a forward direction to supply the sheet to a printing unit. A sensor whose output is changed in accordance with a distance between the sensor and the sheet is used. A rotation direction of the roll sheet is switched from an opposite direction to the forward direction on the basis of the output of the sensor during rotation of the roll sheet in the opposite direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masato Eiyama, Yuki Igarashi, Masashi Kamada, Masashi Negishi, Ryoya Shinjo, Ryo Kobayashi, Tomohiro Suzuki, Tsutomu Obata
  • Patent number: 11245796
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to provide information in response to satisfaction of a given condition. The information indicates that a mixed-color characteristic is to be corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11230125
    Abstract: A roll sheet with a continuous sheet wound in a roll form is rotated in a forward direction to supply the sheet to a printing unit. A sensor whose output is changed in accordance with a distance between the sensor and the sheet is used. A rotation direction of the roll sheet is switched from an opposite direction to the forward direction on the basis of the output of the sensor during rotation of the roll sheet in the opposite direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masato Eiyama, Yuki Igarashi, Masashi Kamada, Masashi Negishi, Ryoya Shinjo, Ryo Kobayashi, Tomohiro Suzuki, Tsutomu Obata
  • Publication number: 20220003644
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a small fluidic device. The fluidic device includes: a first substrate, a second substrate, and a third substrate which are sequentially stacked in a thickness direction; a first flow path formed by a groove provided on at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate; and a plurality of circulation flow paths having: a first portion which is formed by a groove provided on at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate and which includes a shared portion that shares part of the flow path with the first flow path; a second portion which is formed by a groove provided on at least one of the second substrate and the third substrate; and a third portion which penetrates through the second substrate in the thickness direction and which connects together the first portion and the second portion at each of positions on both end sides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventor: Ryo KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11214113
    Abstract: A vehicular air conditioning device includes an air conditioning case having first, second case introduction ports and first, second case discharge ports, and a fan. The first, second case discharge ports are offset upward and downward in an up-down direction relative to a rotation axis, respectively. A first inner guide surface of an inner guide plate is located on the one side of a second inner guide surface in the left-right direction. Air introduced through the first case introduction port is guided by the first inner guide surface to be drawn from a first passage into the fan, the air being blown upward to flow through the first case discharge port. Air introduced through the second case introduction port is guided by the second inner guide surface to be drawn from a second passage into the fan, the air being blown upward to flow through the second case discharge port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Kato, Ryo Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Sekito, Tetsuya Kono, Yuki Tsumagari, Tomohide Shindo
  • Patent number: 11192106
    Abstract: A fluidic device includes a first circulation flow path and a second circulation flow path which circulate a solution containing a sample material, the first circulation flow path and the second circulation flow path share at least a part of the flow path, and at least one selected from the group consisting of a capture unit which captures the sample material, a detection unit which detects the sample material, a valve, and a pump is provided on the shared flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Kobayashi, Keiji Mitsui, Taro Ueno, Hirofumi Shiono
  • Patent number: 11190668
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to compose background information with latent image information to generate a latent-image-embedded image, add the latent-image-embedded image to print data, and at least one of extract the latent image information from the print data and extract the background information from the print data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryo Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20210362559
    Abstract: An air conditioning unit for a vehicle includes: an air conditioning case defining an in-case passage in which air flows to a vehicle interior; a cooler arranged in the air conditioning case and configured to cool the air flowing in the in-case passage; a blower that includes a blower motor and an impeller configured to be rotated by the blower motor and generate an air flow in the in-case passage; and a cooling passage portion defining a motor cooling passage in which air flows to cool the blower motor. The blower is arranged downstream of the cooler with respect to the air flow in the air conditioning case. The motor cooling passage includes a passage inlet located downstream of the impeller with respect to the air flow in the in-case passage, and a passage outlet located upstream of the impeller with respect to the air flow in the in-case passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Yasue YONEZU, Ryo KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11173732
    Abstract: To provide a printing apparatus and a conveyance apparatus that are capable of preventing a cut position to be cut by a slitter (cutting unit) from deviating, a printing apparatus, which is configured to perform printing by use of a printing unit on a printing medium conveyed by a conveyance unit and is configured to cut the printing medium on which the printing has been performed by the printing unit by use of a cutting unit at a cut position along a conveyance direction of the conveyance unit, includes an abutment portion configured to abut on a printing surface of the printing medium at an inner position relative to the cut position in a width direction of the printing medium, the width direction that crosses the conveyance direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Suzuki, Ryo Kobayashi, Tsutomu Obata
  • Publication number: 20210346886
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a flow path device capable of suppressing an occurrence of air bubbles when a solution is introduced into a flow path. A fluidic device has a pair of substrates which are stacked in a thickness direction, one substrate including a flow path formed by being covered with the other substrate. The flow path includes a merging/branching portion which is surrounded by a contour which is configured to match each line segment connecting together apex positions of an equilateral triangle as viewed in the thickness direction or a contour parallel to each line segment and in which solution merges or branches. A valve which is configured to regulate flow of a fluid in the flow path is provided in at least two of the apex positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Ryo KOBAYASHI, Tetsuomi TAKASAKI, Naoya ISHIZAWA, Taichi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210346887
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a fluidic device in which a solution can be introduced into a flow path and be quantified while preventing air bubbles from being generated. A pair of substrates are provided which are stacked in a thickness direction and in which one substrate includes a flow path constituted by being covered by another substrate. The flow path includes a quantification part that is able to quantify a solution to a predetermined amount. The quantification part includes: a pair of merging/branching portions each of which is surrounded by a contour that matches each of line segments connecting apex positions of an equilateral triangle in a view of the thickness direction or a contour parallel to each of the line segments and at which merging or branching of the solution is performed; and a connection portion that connects the pair of merging/branching portions via one of the apex positions of the equilateral triangle of the merging/branching portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Ryo KOBAYASHI, Tetsuomi TAKASAKI, Naoya ISHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20210348992
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fluidic device in which solutions of different concentrations can be easily obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Ryo KOBAYASHI, Hirofumi SHIONO
  • Publication number: 20210309024
    Abstract: To provide a printing apparatus and a conveyance apparatus that are capable of preventing a cut position to be cut by a cutting unit from deviating, in a printing apparatus in which printing is performed by a printing unit on a printing medium that is conveyed by a conveyance unit and the printing medium is cut by a cutting unit while being conveyed by the conveyance unit and a conveying force apply unit, the conveying force apply unit is arranged on an outer side relative to the cutting unit and configured to apply a conveying force to the printing medium in a direction outward in a width direction from an upstream to a downstream in a conveyance direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Ryo Kobayashi, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Tsutomu Obata
  • Patent number: D930057
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: AMADA HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Kobayashi, Akihiko Sugiyama, Yasuhito Baba
  • Patent number: D933253
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya Ishizawa, Taro Ueno, Ryo Kobayashi