Patents by Inventor Sachio Kobayashi

Sachio 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: 20240377435
    Abstract: A sensor device according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a sensor head and a measurement unit. The sensor head includes a first probe and a second probe, the first probe including a first antenna section used for transmission, the second probe including a second antenna section used for reception, the second probe being situated at a specified distance from the first probe and facing the first probe. The measurement unit includes a signal generator that generates a measurement signal that includes information regarding characteristics of a propagation of an electromagnetic wave in a medium between the first and second antenna sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicants: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi YAMADA, Kyohei YOSHIMITSU, Hiroyuki MITA, Sachio IIDA, Seiji KOBAYASHI, Toshiyuki HIROI
  • Patent number: 12066461
    Abstract: A sensor device according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a sensor head and a measurement unit. The sensor head includes a first probe and a second probe, the first probe including a first antenna section used for transmission, the second probe including a second antenna section used for reception, the second probe being situated at a specified distance from the first probe and facing the first probe. The measurement unit includes a signal generator that generates a measurement signal that includes information regarding characteristics of a propagation of an electromagnetic wave in a medium between the first and second antenna sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignees: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Yamada, Kyohei Yoshimitsu, Hiroyuki Mita, Sachio Iida, Seiji Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Hiroi
  • Publication number: 20240208381
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle seat (car seat) comprising a seat cushion pad (seat body) having an air passage connected to an outlet port (114), and a blower having an inlet port (113) and configured to feed air taken in through the inlet port (113) to the air passage. The blower (100) is located on the lower side of the seat cushion pad (seat body) that is opposite to an occupant's side on which an occupant is to be seated, and the inlet port (113) is directed upward that is a direction toward the seat cushion pad (seat body).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2024
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Sachio KOBAYASHI, Hayato SHIMAZAKI, Kazuhiro OSHIMA
  • Patent number: 11945347
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle seat (car seat) comprising a seat cushion pad (seat body) having an air passage connected to an outlet port (114), and a blower having an inlet port (113) and configured to feed air taken in through the inlet port (113) to the air passage. The blower (100) is located on the lower side of the seat cushion pad (seat body) that is opposite to an occupant's side on which an occupant is to be seated, and the inlet port (113) is directed upward that is a direction toward the seat cushion pad (seat body).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sachio Kobayashi, Hayato Shimazaki, Kazuhiro Oshima
  • Patent number: 11787317
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a seat of which a seating comfort can be improved. The seat includes a seat cushion pad having an air passage formed inside and an air vent formed at an upper surface thereof, and is configured to allow air in the air passage to blow out through the air vent, wherein the seat cushion pad includes a pad body and a cover member which is disposed over the pad body to form the air passage between the pad body and the cover member and in which the air vent is formed, and a front end portion of the cover member extends downward over a front end portion of the pad body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuzaburo Abe, Sachio Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230226959
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle seat (car seat) comprising a seat cushion pad (seat body) having an air passage connected to an outlet port (114), and a blower having an inlet port (113) and configured to feed air taken in through the inlet port (113) to the air passage. The blower (100) is located on the lower side of the seat cushion pad (seat body) that is opposite to an occupant's side on which an occupant is to be seated, and the inlet port (113) is directed upward that is a direction toward the seat cushion pad (seat body).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Sachio KOBAYASHI, Hayato SHIMAZAKI, Kazuhiro OSHIMA
  • Patent number: 11618356
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle seat (car seat) comprising a seat cushion pad (seat body) having an air passage connected to an outlet port (114), and a blower having an inlet port (113) and configured to feed air taken in through the inlet port (113) to the air passage. The blower (100) is located on the lower side of the seat cushion pad (seat body) that is opposite to an occupant's side on which an occupant is to be seated, and the inlet port (113) is directed upward that is a direction toward the seat cushion pad (seat body).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sachio Kobayashi, Hayato Shimazaki, Kazuhiro Oshima
  • Publication number: 20220371489
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a seat of which a seating comfort can be improved. The seat includes a seat cushion pad having an air passage formed inside and an air vent formed at an upper surface thereof, and is configured to allow air in the air passage to blow out through the air vent, wherein the seat cushion pad includes a pad body and a cover member which is disposed over the pad body to form the air passage between the pad body and the cover member and in which the air vent is formed, and a front end portion of the cover member extends downward over a front end portion of the pad body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Ryuzaburo ABE, Sachio KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11458870
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a seat of which a seating comfort can be improved. The seat includes a seat cushion pad having an air passage formed inside and an air vent formed at an upper surface thereof, and is configured to allow air in the air passage to blow out through the air vent, wherein the seat cushion pad includes a pad body and a cover member which is disposed over the pad body to form the air passage between the pad body and the cover member and in which the air vent is formed, and a front end portion of the cover member extends downward over a front end portion of the pad body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuzaburo Abe, Sachio Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11396291
    Abstract: A vehicle control device is equipped with a detection unit configured to detect lane markings and another vehicle on the basis of peripheral information, and a control unit which, in the case that the lane marking is detected on one side of a host vehicle, but the lane marking is not detected on another side of the host vehicle, is configured to control the host vehicle on the basis of the positions of a plurality of the other vehicles that are traveling respectively in mutually different lanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sachio Kobayashi, Eiki Sato
  • Patent number: 11292372
    Abstract: In a vehicle seat (1), a heater element (40) disposed between the surface of a cushion pad (8) and a skin member (9) includes a pair of main body portions (45-47) and a crossing portion (48, 49) connecting the main body portions to each other, the crossing portion being received in a tuck-in groove (11) formed in the cushion pad and extending through a gap defined between a bottom portion (22) of the tuck-in groove and a tuck-in member (35). The heater element includes a substrate (41) in sheet form, and a heater wire (42) attached to the substrate, and the heater wire in the crossing portion extends in a direction orthogonal to a lengthwise direction of the tuck-in groove in a zigzag pattern, the heater wire including a bent portion (62) of the zigzag pattern located in a bottom region (68) of the tuck-in groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Hoshi, Sachio Kobayashi, Yuma Tanabe
  • Patent number: 11247334
    Abstract: A method includes: executing judgment processing for judging whether a site to carry out a first task assigned to a first robot and a site to carry out a second task assigned to a second robot are likely to overlap each other; executing comparison processing for comparing first end time with second end time when the sites to carry out the first task and the second task are likely to overlap each other; and executing determination processing for selecting the first task order when the first end time is earlier than the second end time, and selecting the second task order when the second end time is earlier than the first end time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Sachio Kobayashi, Hiroki Kobayashi, Daichi Shimada, Ryo Murakami
  • Patent number: 11161505
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a control unit, which is a control unit that determines, on the basis of the positions of a plurality of other vehicles, whether or not the position of a host vehicle lane is being correctly detected by a detection unit, and controls the host vehicle by determining that the position of the host vehicle lane is being correctly detected by the detection unit, on the basis of another vehicle existing among the plurality of other vehicles, for which a first distance, which is a distance in a lane widthwise direction between the position of the host vehicle lane and a position corresponding to the position of the other vehicle, is less than a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sachio Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20210229581
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle seat (car seat) comprising a seat cushion pad (seat body) having an air passage connected to an outlet port (114), and a blower having an inlet port (113) and configured to feed air taken in through the inlet port (113) to the air passage. The blower (100) is located on the lower side of the seat cushion pad (seat body) that is opposite to an occupant's side on which an occupant is to be seated, and the inlet port (113) is directed upward that is a direction toward the seat cushion pad (seat body).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Sachio KOBAYASHI, Hayato SHIMAZAKI, Kazuhiro OSHIMA
  • Patent number: 11001176
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle seat (car seat) comprising a seat cushion pad (seat body) having an air passage connected to an outlet port (114), and a blower having an inlet port (113) and configured to feed air taken in through the inlet port (113) to the air passage. The blower (100) is located on the lower side of the seat cushion pad (seat body) that is opposite to an occupant's side on which an occupant is to be seated, and the inlet port (113) is directed upward that is a direction toward the seat cushion pad (seat body).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sachio Kobayashi, Hayato Shimazaki, Kazuhiro Oshima
  • Patent number: 10969764
    Abstract: A design support device includes: a memory; and a processor configured to execute a process, the process including: receiving a precedence restriction, a work time and advisability of a robot work, with respect to a product; calculating, as a first index, a continuous work number in a case where each work which a robot cannot perform is changed to a work which the robot can perform, on a basis of the precedence restriction and the advisability of the robot work; calculating, as a second index, an arrangement freedom in the case on a basis of the precedence restriction, the work time and the advisability of the robot work; associating information according to the first index and the second index with an object work of the first index and the second index; and presenting the information and the object work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Sachio Kobayashi, Hiroki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20200376991
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a seat of which a seating comfort can be improved. The seat includes a seat cushion pad 1 having an air passage 1A formed inside and an air vent formed at an upper surface thereof, and is configured to allow air in the air passage 1A to blow out through the air vent, wherein the seat cushion pad 1 includes a pad body 10 and a cover member 20 which is disposed over the pad body 10 to form the air passage 1A between the pad body 10 and the cover member 20 and in which the air vent is formed, and a front end portion 23 of the cover member 20 extends downward over a front end portion 10F of the pad body 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Ryuzaburo ABE, Sachio KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200307426
    Abstract: In a vehicle seat (1), a heater element (40) disposed between the surface of a cushion pad (8) and a skin member (9) includes a pair of main body portions (45-47) and a crossing portion (48, 49) connecting the main body portions to each other, the crossing portion being received in a tuck-in groove (11) formed in the cushion pad and extending through a gap defined between a bottom portion (22) of the tuck-in groove and a tuck-in member (35). The heater element includes a substrate (41) in sheet form, and a heater wire (42) attached to the substrate, and the heater wire in the crossing portion extends in a direction orthogonal to a lengthwise direction of the tuck-in groove in a zigzag pattern, the heater wire including a bent portion (62) of the zigzag pattern located in a bottom region (68) of the tuck-in groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Yuichiro Hoshi, Sachio Kobayashi, Yuma Tanabe
  • Patent number: 10752140
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a seat of which a seating comfort can be improved. The seat includes a seat cushion pad 1 having an air passage 1A formed inside and an air vent formed at an upper surface thereof, and is configured to allow air in the air passage 1A to blow out through the air vent, wherein the seat cushion pad 1 includes a pad body 10 and a cover member 20 which is disposed over the pad body 10 to form the air passage 1A between the pad body 10 and the cover member 20 and in which the air vent is formed, and a front end portion 23 of the cover member 20 extends downward over a front end portion 10F of the pad body 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuzaburo Abe, Sachio Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10696199
    Abstract: In a vehicle seat (1), a heater element (40) disposed between the surface of a cushion pad (8) and a skin member (9) includes a pair of main body portions (45-47) and a crossing portion (48, 49) connecting the main body portions to each other, the crossing portion being received in a tuck-in groove (11) formed in the cushion pad and extending through a gap defined between a bottom portion (22) of the tuck-in groove and a tuck-in member (35). The heater element includes a substrate (41) in sheet form, and a heater wire (42) attached to the substrate, and the heater wire in the crossing portion extends in a direction orthogonal to a lengthwise direction of the tuck-in groove in a zigzag pattern, the heater wire including a bent portion (62) of the zigzag pattern located in a bottom region (68) of the tuck-in groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Hoshi, Sachio Kobayashi, Yuma Tanabe