Patents by Inventor Shinichi Kobayashi

Shinichi 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: 20240083112
    Abstract: A three-dimensional object printing apparatus includes: a head unit including a head that ejects a liquid toward a three-dimensional workpiece along a Z axis; a sensor unit including a sensor that detects a positional relationship with respect to the workpiece; and a movement mechanism that change positions of the head unit and the sensor unit with respect to the workpiece, in which the movement mechanism includes a first Z-axis movement mechanism that changes the position of the sensor unit with respect to the workpiece along the Z axis, and a second Z-axis movement mechanism that changes the position of the head unit with respect to the workpiece along the Z axis, and the first Z-axis movement mechanism and the second Z-axis movement mechanism move the sensor unit and the head unit independently of each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Shinichi NAKAMURA, Keigo SUGAI, Hajime KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11929771
    Abstract: A transmission system includes: an antenna; a control device including an RF circuit which transmits a first signal for controlling a radio wave to be outputted from the antenna and an external power supply which supplies direct current to the antenna; and a first transmission path which connects the antenna and the control device, and is used in transmission of the first signal and supplying of the direct current to the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kaga, Toshihiro Nagayama, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Yasunori Komukai, Shinichi Okada, Yasumichi Takai, Yoshinori Hiramatsu
  • Publication number: 20240058685
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit, provided that information indicating evaluation about a first exercise is evaluation information, inputting input information including the evaluation information about a first person and respective pieces of the evaluation information about a plurality of model persons to a trained machine learning model being configured to, when the input information is input, output model person information indicating a model person appropriate for a goal of the first person among the plurality of model persons, and outputting output information including the model person information output from the machine learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240027765
    Abstract: A control device includes a determination unit that determines an image visually recognized by a user among a plurality of images displayed by an image display unit based on at least one of the line of sight of the user and the orientation of the head of the user, a setting unit that sets, as a first image, an image having the highest number of determination times that an image has been determined as an image visually recognized by the user among the plurality of images displayed by the image display unit, and sets, as a second image, an image having the second highest number of determination times after the first image, and a display control unit that changes a display position of the second image so that a display distance between the first image and the second image being displayed becomes shorter than a preset distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11866971
    Abstract: A hinge, wherein, inter alia, intrusion of foreign matter in a contacting portion of a slide member and a cam member and resulting adhesion of an oil provided in the cam member to the foreign matter is reliability prevented from the closed state to the open state of a second wing member. The hinge is provided with an oil fence disposed on the outside close to the contacting portion of the cam member and slide member, the oil fence preventing, from the closed slate to the open state of the second wing member, foreign matter front intruding into the contacting portion of the slide member and cant member from the outside of the slide member and cant member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SIMOTEC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11791099
    Abstract: A film capacitor that includes a capacitor element including one or more wound or laminated metallized films, each metallized film including a resin film and a metal layer on a surface of the resin film; an outer case that houses the capacitor element; and a filling resin that fills a space between the capacitor element and the outer case, wherein the outer case is made of a resin composition containing a liquid crystal polymer and an inorganic filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignees: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., SHIZUKI ELECTRIC CO., INC.
    Inventors: Satoru Jogan, Shinichi Kobayashi, Tomomichi Ichikawa, Satoshi Kamei, Kimiaki Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11754285
    Abstract: The liner of a combustor (100) for a gas turbine engine is provided with a projection region (111) provided with a plurality of projections (110) each projecting toward the compressed air chamber (56) from the liner outer surface and having a vertical wall portion (114) extending substantially orthogonally to a flow direction of compressed air flowing in the compressed air chamber, and a plurality of cooling holes (118) passed through the liner from the liner outer surface to the liner inner surface such that an end of each cooling hole on a side of the compressed air chamber is more downstream than an end of the cooling hole on a side of the combustion chamber (52) with respect to the flow direction of the compressed air in the compressed air chamber, at least a part of the cooling holes being formed in the projection region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuharu Kamoi, Shinichi Kobayashi, Hideaki Nakano
  • Patent number: 11725821
    Abstract: A fuel nozzle device (100) for injecting liquid fuel into a combustion chamber (52) of a gas turbine engine (10) includes an outer tube (101), a rear end wall (102) closing a base end of the outer tube, a tapered conical tube (104) defining a first air passage (112) therein, and a second air passage (114) having an annular cross section jointly with the outer tube, a fuel passage (108) axially passed through the rear end wall, and leading to a fuel ejection port (109) directed toward an inner circumferential surface of a base end of the conical tube, a first air introduction passage (111) passed through the outer tube to communicate with the first air passage, and a second air introduction passage (113) passed through the outer tube to communicate with the second air passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuharu Kamoi, Shinichi Kobayashi, Hideaki Nakano, Yukihito Koizumi, Shigeru Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11681433
    Abstract: A method for controlling a display system including a head-mounted display device and a controller coupled to the display device is provided. A first display unit provided in the display device constituting the display system enables an outside scene to be visually recognized. The first display unit is caused to perform display in any mode of a plurality of modes in accordance with a state of the head of a user wearing the display device. At this time, one input mode of a plurality of input modes is set in accordance with a display mode of the first display unit, and input corresponding to each of the plurality of input modes is enabled in coordination with display on a second display unit provided in the controller, and input is received in the input mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Kobayashi, Masahide Takano
  • Patent number: 11672030
    Abstract: A control method of an embodiment is a control process in which, based on management information of a first execution order that is an execution order of a hands free profile (HFP) connection process of attempting to establish an HFP connection to a pre-registered peripheral device and a second execution order that is an execution order of an audio video profile (AVP) connection process of attempting to establish an AVP connection to the peripheral device, an on-vehicle device connectable to the peripheral device by Bluetooth performs the HFP connection process in the first execution order and performs the AVP connection process in the second execution order, and when a connection with a certain peripheral device is not established within a predetermined time in one of the HFP connection process and the AVP connection process and the peripheral device is managed as an execution target of the other connection process in the management information, the on-vehicle device determines whether to restrain execution
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Kobayashi, Naoto Furuyama, Daiki Kawase, Yuki Tanaka, Ryosuke Asafuji
  • Publication number: 20230068369
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a hot-forged member, the method enabling efficient hot forging while preventing defects such as cracks even when a poor workability alloy is used as a material to be hot forged. A method for manufacturing a hot-forged member, comprising: a heating step of heating an unheated material for hot forging in a furnace to a hot forging temperature; a heat-resistant insulation material bonding step of bonding a heat-resistant insulation material to at least a part of a surface of a material for forging removed from the furnace to obtain a material to be hot forged; and a hot forging step of compressing a part or all of the material to be hot forged into a predetermined shape using any of a die, an anvil, and a tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Yoji YAMASHITA, Chuya AOKI, Shinichi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230003627
    Abstract: Provided is a measuring device for measuring the hardness of a rotor blade groove. This measuring device comprises: a hardness meter for measuring hardness; an actuator that presses the hardness meter to an object to be measured; a camera for capturing an image of a measurement range in the object to be measured by the hardness meter; a movement mechanism for moving the hardness meter and the camera to a desired position within the measurement range; and a fixing member for fixing the movement mechanism to the object to be measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Fuke, Hirone Komatsu, Yuichi Sekine, Hideo Yoda, Juichi Kodera, Eiji Saito, Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220341595
    Abstract: A fuel nozzle device (100) for injecting liquid fuel into a combustion chamber (52) of a gas turbine engine (10) includes an outer tube (101), a rear end wall (102) closing a base end of the outer tube, a tapered conical tube (104) defining a first air passage (112) therein, and a second air passage (114) having an annular cross section jointly with the outer tube, a fuel passage (108) axially passed through the rear end wall, and leading to a fuel ejection port (109) directed toward an inner circumferential surface of a base end of the conical tube, a first air introduction passage (111) passed through the outer tube to communicate with the first air passage, and a second air introduction passage (113) passed through the outer tube to communicate with the second air passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuharu KAMOI, Shinichi KOBAYASHI, Hideaki NAKANO, Yukihito KOIZUMI, Shigeru HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11476054
    Abstract: A film capacitor that includes a metallized film having a metal layer on one surface of a dielectric resin film, in which, when a thermal expansion coefficient of the metallized film is ?P and a thermal expansion coefficient of the metal layer is ?M, a value of ?P/?M is 5.1 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomomichi Ichikawa, Tomoki Inakura, Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220307693
    Abstract: The liner of a combustor (100) for a gas turbine engine is provided with a projection region (111) provided with a plurality of projections (110) each projecting toward the compressed air chamber (56) from the liner outer surface and having a vertical wall portion (114) extending substantially orthogonally to a flow direction of compressed air flowing in the compressed air chamber, and a plurality of cooling holes (118) passed through the liner from the liner outer surface to the liner inner surface such that an end of each cooling hole on a side of the compressed air chamber is more downstream than an end of the cooling hole on a side of the combustion chamber (52) with respect to the flow direction of the compressed air in the compressed air chamber, at least a part of the cooling holes being formed in the projection region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuharu KAMOI, Shinichi KOBAYASHI, Hideaki NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20220311653
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: a first processor mounted on a server connected to a local network of an organization to which a user belongs, the server having a function of connecting a virtual private network; a second processor mounted on an information processing apparatus installed outside the local network; and a third processor mounted on a management apparatus installed outside the local network, the management apparatus being communicable with the server and the information processing apparatus, the third processor being configured to hold organization information comprising at least connection information corresponding to the organization in the management apparatus, the connection information being used for connection to the server, the second processor being configured to: acquire the connection information corresponding to the organization to which a user using the information processing apparatus belongs from the management apparatus; detect via the management apparatus that the orga
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Shinichi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220299763
    Abstract: A display system including an HMD and a control device is provided. The control device includes a battery and a CO control unit configured to supply power to the HMD. The HMD includes an image display unit configured to display an image included in a playback signal received from the control device, a sound processing unit configured to output a sound included in the playback signal, a right earphone and a left earphone, a detection unit including a plurality of sensors, and a power control unit configured to supply power supplied from the control device to a supply destination. The operation of the image display unit, the sound output unit, and the plurality of sensors is stopped when the power consumed by the HMD is greater than the power supplied by the control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220304090
    Abstract: An on-vehicle device is connectable to a mobile terminal by a plurality of cooperation methods by use of a plurality of wireless connections, and includes a first connection control unit which performs connection to a first mobile terminal by a first cooperation method by use of a first wireless connection, a second connection control unit which performs connection to the first mobile terminal by a second cooperation method by use of a second wireless connection, and a display unit which displays a connected state to the first mobile terminal, the display unit displays a cooperation method selection image including a first selection part to execute connection by the first connection control unit, and a second selection part to execute connection by the second connection control unit, and the first selection part and the second selection part are displayed concurrently in the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Ryosuke Asafuji, Shinichi Kobayashi, Naoto Furuyama, Daiki Kawase, Ryosuke Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11430610
    Abstract: A film capacitor that includes a laminate having a first resin film including a first metal layer on a surface thereof alternately laminated with a second resin film including a second metal layer on a surface thereof, the laminate having opposed first and second ends, a first external electrode on the first end of the laminate, and a second external electrode on the second end of the laminate, wherein the first resin film protrudes more than the second resin film by a first protruding length of 0.5 mm to 3 mm on the first end of the laminate, and the first resin film has a Young's modulus at 150° C. of 0.6 GPa or more in a direction perpendicular to a lamination direction of the laminate and parallel to a direction from the first end to the second end of the laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignees: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., SHIZUKI ELECTRIC CO., INC.
    Inventors: Satoru Jogan, Tomomichi Ichikawa, Shinichi Kobayashi, Tomoki Inakura, Kimiaki Kikuchi, Satoshi Kamei, Kyosuke Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11391953
    Abstract: A specific posture is set as a standard posture of the head of a user wearing a display device, and a movement from the standard posture is detected. The detected movement of the head is associated in advance with a first mode and a second mode that are display modes of the image display unit, and the image display unit performs display in the first mode when the detected movement of the head is a movement in a predetermined first direction and exceeds a predetermined first threshold value and performs display in the second mode when the movement is a movement in a second direction that is different from the first direction and exceeds a predetermined second threshold value. An input is received in an input mode associated in advance with the first mode or the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Kobayashi