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).

  • Patent number: 10045465
    Abstract: An effective cooling system is provided by the configuration including: a blower; a first rectifier comprising a first opening that lets a first diversion pass through and a second opening that lets a second diversion divided from airflow pass through downstream a first electronic device; a mixing room that is arranged at a downstream portion of the first rectifier and that mixes the first diversion having passed through the first opening and the second diversion having passed through the second opening; and a second rectifier that is arranged at a downstream portion of the mixing room and includes a third opening and a fourth opening, a mixed airflow of the first diversion and the second diversion passing through the third opening and the fourth opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Ichinose, Shinichi Kobayashi, Kenji Aoki
  • Publication number: 20180217590
    Abstract: An HMD includes an image display section worn on a head of a user, an HMD communication section configured to receive a captured image transmitted by a vehicle, a position estimating section configured to estimate a position of the vehicle in a real space on the basis of the captured image received by the HMD communication section, and a display control section configured to cause the image display section to display the captured image received by the HMD communication section and information concerning the position of the vehicle estimated by the position estimating section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi KOBAYASHI, Masahide TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20180196425
    Abstract: A transmission-type head-mounted display device includes an image display, a control section configured to control the image display section, a position detecting section, a visual-field detecting section configured to detect a visual field of the user, and a wireless communication section configured to perform wireless communication with an external apparatus. The control section includes a state-information acquiring section configured to acquire, via the wireless communication section, state information including a position of an own aircraft, which is a mobile body set as an operation target object of the user, and a support-information creating section configured to create, on the basis of a relation between the position and the visual field of the user and the position of the own aircraft, a support image including support information for operation of the own aircraft and cause the image display section to display the support image as the virtual image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10009602
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes: an image-light generating unit for right eye that generates image light from image data for right eye and emits the image light; an image-light generating unit for left eye that generates image light from image data for left eye and the image light; a light guide units that guide the emitted image lights to the left and right eyes of the user; and a display control unit that transmits control signals for controlling the emission of the image lights respectively to the image-light generating unit for right eye and the image-light generating unit for left eye. The display control unit transitions, according to a condition set in advance, the head-mounted display device to a power saving state for causing one of the image-light generating unit for right eye and the image-light generating unit for left eye to stop the emission of the image light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fusashi Kimura, Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20180176547
    Abstract: An HMD includes a six-axis sensor, a magnetic sensor, and a head motion detecting section that detect at least one of the position and motion of a head, a reference setting section that sets a reference state based on at least one of the head position and motion detected by the head motion detecting section, and a display controlling section that changes the display state of a content displayed by the display section based on changes in the position and motion of the head with respect to those in the reference state. The content is formed of a plurality of contents, and the display controlling section changes the display state of the contents displayed by an image display section in such a way that the relative display positions of the contents are maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9982059
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for treatment and/or prevention of cancer, which comprises, as an active ingredient, an antibody or fragment thereof having an immunological reactivity with a CAPRIN-1 protein or a fragment thereof comprising 7 or more consecutive amino acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Fumiyoshi Okano, Takayoshi Ido, Takanori Saito, Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9971155
    Abstract: A transmission type head mounted display device includes an image display unit including an image-light generating unit configured to generate image light on the basis of image data and emit the image light, the image display unit causing a user to visually recognize the image light as a virtual image and transmitting an outside scene in a state, a display-unit-direction specifying unit configured to specify a display unit direction, which is a direction of the image display unit, a specific-direction setting unit configured to set a specific direction on the basis of an image light generation region where the image-light generating unit generates the image light and the display unit direction, and a control unit configured to set a position of the image light generation region on the basis of the display unit direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Kobayashi, Toshikazu Uchiyama, Hitomi Wakamiya
  • Patent number: 9967687
    Abstract: To maintain favorable sound reproduction. In a car audio apparatus 6 which includes an inter-equipment communication unit 51 configured to perform communication according to each of a plurality of sound communication protocols Pv for transmitting a sound signal A3 of audio, and a reproduction processing unit 52 configured to reproduce the sound signal A3 received through the communication, and which receives the sound signal A3 from a smartphone 8 through communication according to any of the sound communication protocols Pv, the car audio apparatus 6 includes a priority storing unit 62 configured to store a priority of the sound communication protocols Pv in advance, and a sound signal input controlling unit 53 configured to, in the case where a sound communication request for transmitting the sound signal A3 is received from the smartphone 8, accept the sound communication request according to the priority of a sound communication protocol Pv of requested communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20180100223
    Abstract: A method of producing a Ni-based superalloy is provided. A hot working material is used and consisting of a specific composition and has a solvus temperature of a ?? phase of 1050° C. or more. The method includes: performing heating in a temperature of 980° C. to 1050° C. with an upper limit of ?30° C. from the solvus temperature of the ?? phase, for 10 hours or longer; and performing hot working on the material at a working speed of a strain rate of 2.0/second or more in the above temperature range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi KOBAYASHI, Tomonori UENO, Takehiro OHNO
  • Publication number: 20180057921
    Abstract: A method of producing a Ni-based super heat-resistant alloy in which a hot working material is subjected to hot working with a mold is provided. The hot working material consists of, in mass %, 0.001 to 0.050% of C, 1.0% to 4.0% of Al, 3.0% to 7.0% of Ti, 12% to 18% of Cr, 12% to 30% of Co, 1.5% to 5.5% of Mo, 0.5% to 2.5% of W, 0.001% to 0.050% of B, 0.001% to 0.100% of Zr, 0% to 0.01% of Mg, 0% to 5% of Fe, 0% to 3% of Ta, 0% to 3% of Nb, and the remainder of Ni and impurities. The method includes: heating and holding the hot working material in a temperature range of 950° C. to 1150° C. for 1 hour or longer; and performing hot working on the material with the mold that is heated to a temperature range of 800° C. to 1150° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi KOBAYASHI, Tomonori UENO, Takehiro OHNO
  • Patent number: 9903011
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a Ni-based heat-resistant superalloy a primary ?? phase with an average particle size of at least 500 nm comprising the steps of: providing a material to be hot-worked having a composition consisting of, by mass, 0.001 to 0.05% C, 1.0 to 4.0% Al, 4.5 to 7.0% Ti, 12 to 18% Cr, 14 to 27% Co, 1.5 to 4.5% Mo, 0.5 to 2.5% W, 0.001 to 0.05% B, 0.001 to 0.1% Zr, and the balance of Ni with inevitable impurities; heating the material to be hot-worked in a temperature having a range of 1,130 to 1,200° C. for at least 2 hours; cooling the material to be hot-worked heated by the heating step to a hot working temperature or less at a cooling rate of at most 0.03° C./second; and subjecting the material to be hot-worked to hot working after the cooling step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Sato, Shinichi Kobayashi, Tomonori Ueno, Takehiro Ohno, Chuya Aoki, Eiji Shimohira
  • Patent number: 9886796
    Abstract: A transmission type head mounted display which allows a user to visually recognize a display screen as a virtual image and to visually recognize the display screen at a focal length matching a convergence angle of the user, includes an image analysis portion that recognizes a real object within a view field of the user, a distance sensor that detects a distance from the user to the real object, a display control portion that displays the display screen in which an AR image for the real object is disposed, and a display section that displays the display screen, in which the display control portion displays a screen effect which guides a convergence angle of the user to a convergence angle matching the detected distance, on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9857588
    Abstract: A transmission type head mounted display allows a user to visually recognize a display screen as a virtual image, and includes a display control portion that displays a plurality of icons for calling respective applications on the display screen, and a display section that displays the plurality of icons, in which the display control portion displays the plurality of icons in retreating regions which avoid a view field securing region of the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9857863
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes an image display unit that enables a user to visually recognize an image and transmits external scenery therethrough, a first battery, a second battery, a communication unit, and a control unit that switches a power source between the first battery and the second battery. The control unit causes an operation mode of the display apparatus to transition from a normal operation mode to a battery replacement mode in which power consumption of the image display unit and the communication unit is lower than that in the normal operation mode in a case where the power source is changed from the first battery to the second battery. The communication unit is maintained in a communicable state in the battery replacement mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9836120
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit which is able to take a first position which is a relative position with respect to user's eyes and a second position which is a relative position with respect to the eyes and is different from the first position. The display device further includes a display mode change unit which, when the display unit displaying an image at the first position is moved to the second position, changes the mode of the display continued on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9835389
    Abstract: A plurality of upper fins and a plurality of lower fins are each provided in an EGR passage so as to be adjacent to each other across a predetermined space in a direction perpendicular to an exhaust-gas flow direction. The upper fins and the lower fins are gradually narrowed in width toward their respective projection directions, so that both sides thereof in their width direction have inclined surfaces. A tilt angle of the inclined surfaces of the lower fins is made larger than a tilt angle of the inclined surfaces of the upper fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9828657
    Abstract: There is provided an Ni-base super alloy which is used for airplane engines and gas turbines for power generation and has favorable mechanical properties at high temperature. The Ni-base super alloy contains 0.001 to 0.1 mass % of C, 1.0 to 4.0 mass % of Al, 2.0 to 4.5 mass % of Ti, 12.0 to 18.0 mass % of Cr, 11.1 to 18.0 mass % of Co, 1.2 to 12.0 mass % of Fe, 1.5 to 6.5 mass % of Mo, 0.5 to 6.0 mass % of W, 0.1 to 3.0 mass % of Nb, 0.001 to 0.05 mass % of B, 0.001 to 0.1 mass % of Zr, and Ni and impurities as a remainder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryutaro Abe, Takehiro Ohno, Shinichi Kobayashi, Tomonori Ueno, Chuya Aoki
  • Patent number: 9823473
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device that enables a user to visually recognize a virtual image and an outside scene includes an image display unit configured to cause the user to visually recognize the virtual image, a detecting unit configured to detect a visual line direction of the user, and a display switching unit configured to switch, according to the detected visual line direction, display of the virtual image by the image display unit between outside scene preferential display for preferentially displaying the outside scene and virtual image preferential display for preferentially displaying the virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20170294039
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device with which a user can visually recognize a virtual image and an outside scene includes an outside-scene acquiring unit configured to acquire outside scene information including at least a feature of the outside scene in a visual field direction of the user, a position estimating unit configured to estimate, on the basis of at least two kinds of the outside scene information acquired by the outside-scene acquiring unit over time, a position of any target object present in a real world, and an augmented-reality processing unit configured to cause the image display unit to form, on the basis of the estimated position of the target object, the virtual image representing a virtual object to be added to the target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenro YAJIMA, Shinichi KOBAYASHI, Naoto ARUGA
  • Publication number: 20170289615
    Abstract: A display system includes a control device, a first display device, and a second display device. The control device includes a wireless communication section that wirelessly transmits video data. The first display device includes a wireless communication section that receives the video data and an OLED unit that displays a video on the basis of the video data. The second display device includes a wireless communication section that receives the video data and an OLED unit that displays a video on the basis of the video data. The display system detects deviation between the videos displayed by the OLED units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi KOBAYASHI