Patents by Inventor Shogo Kobayashi

Shogo 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: 11912032
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a liquid ejecting head configured to eject a liquid; a liquid flowing portion coupled to the liquid ejecting head and configured to flow the liquid; and a frame that houses the liquid ejecting head and the liquid flowing portion. The frame is provided with a passage hole configured to pass the liquid flowing portion along a depth direction. when viewed in the depth direction, a portion of the liquid flowing portion disposed outside the passage hole is configured to be deformed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Toya, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Yuki Araki, Shogo Nakada, Taiki Kono
  • Patent number: 11872993
    Abstract: A moving body control apparatus includes a judging section that judges a driving preparation level of an occupant of a moving body; and a lane change control section that approves a first lane change, which is a lane change in which a lane boundary line is crossed once, if the driving preparation level of the occupant is greater than or equal to a first level, and approves a second lane change, which is a lane change in which lane boundary lines are crossed a plurality of times, if the driving preparation level of the occupant is greater than or equal to a second level that is higher than the first level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunimichi Hatano, Tadahiko Kanoh, Yuta Takada, Tsubasa Shibauchi, Shogo Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230418234
    Abstract: A dial includes a recessed portion formed by laser irradiation, and a decorative portion formed at a bottom surface of the recessed portion by laser irradiation, including a first groove extending in a first direction, and a second groove extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and including a plurality of protruding portions provided in a region partitioned by a plurality of the first grooves, and a plurality of the second grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Shogo KOBAYASHI, Ai YOSHINAGA, Hajime HIRANO, Toshiyuki KUNO
  • Patent number: 11835111
    Abstract: A power transmission belt includes a belt body made of rubber and a cord embedded in the belt body. The belt body has a portion having the cord embedded therein, and the portion is made of a rubber composition having a storage normal modulus at 25° C. in a grain direction of 80 MPa or more and the ratio of the storage normal modulus at 25° C. in the grain direction to a storage normal modulus at 25° C. in a cross-grain direction of 1.20 or more to 2.50 or less. The rubber composition is arranged such that the grain direction corresponds to a belt length direction and the cross-grain direction corresponds to a belt width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Kobayashi, Ikuhito Doi, Hideyuki Kato
  • Publication number: 20230340691
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method of a silicon single crystal according to the present invention includes a melting process for generating a silicon melt containing a primary dopant, and a crystal pulling-up process that pulls up a silicon single crystal from the silicon melt. The crystal pulling-up process includes at least one additional doping process for adding a dopant raw material containing a secondary dopant into the silicon melt. A flow rate of Ar gas during a first period in which the secondary dopant is not added is set as a first flow rate, and the flow rate of Ar gas during a second period that includes a period in which the secondary dopant is added is set as a second flow rate that is greater than the first flow rate..
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: SUMCO Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo KOBAYASHI, Norihito FUKATSU, Takahiro KANEHARA, Hitomi YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11748790
    Abstract: An accommodation area management device, which manages an accommodation area for accommodating a moving body, includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information including at least one of specifications of the moving body and traveling performance of the moving body when the moving body enters the accommodation area, an accommodation position determination unit configured to determine an accommodation position of the moving body based upon the information, and a use fee determination unit configured to determine a use fee of the accommodation area based upon at least one of the information and the accommodation position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Gaku Shimamoto, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi, Shogo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11673551
    Abstract: When following control that causes a user vehicle to follow a following target that is a first other vehicle travelling in a user path in which the user vehicle is travelling is being performed, a travel control section transitions from a state in which the first other vehicle is the following target to a state in which the first other vehicle is not the following target, and in a case where an outside recognizing section recognizes a second other vehicle, which is travelling in another path that is not the user path, the travel control section determines whether to set the second other vehicle as the following target based on a prescribed condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadahiko Kanoh, Kunimichi Hatano, Tsubasa Shibauchi, Yuta Takada, Shogo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11643527
    Abstract: A power transmission belt includes a belt body at least portion of which is made of a rubber composition containing a rubber component, cellulose-based fine fibers, and cotton powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Kobayashi, Hideyuki Kato, Takafumi Masuda
  • Patent number: 11537385
    Abstract: A notification device, configured to notify an accommodation area that can accommodate a moving body, in which the performance of the moving body that can be accommodated in the accommodation area is predetermined; includes: a first determination unit configured to determine a first accommodation area that can accommodate the moving body with the current performance, based on the current performance of the moving body; a second determination unit configured to determine a second accommodation area that can accommodate the moving body with the performance after rewriting, based on the performance after the rewriting the software of the moving body; and a notification unit configured to separately notify the first accommodation area and the second accommodation area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Gaku Shimamoto, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi, Shogo Kobayashi, Hidekazu Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20220349455
    Abstract: A friction transmission belt includes a belt body which transmits power to a pulley. In a relationship between a friction coefficient and a slipping speed which is a difference between a speed of the belt body and a speed of the pulley, when a slipping speed at which a maximum friction coefficient is indicated is defined as a first slipping speed, a friction coefficient when the slipping speed is increased from the first slipping speed to a second slipping speed is defined as a reference friction coefficient, and a difference between the second slipping speed and the first slipping speed is 500 mm/s, a decrease rate Dm of the friction coefficient indicated by the following equation (1) with the maximum friction coefficient being denoted by ?x and the reference friction coefficient being denoted by ?r is not greater than 20%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuya SHINDO, Shogo KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220334536
    Abstract: A timepiece dial including a base having a first region having a coating film provided at the surface of the base, a second region where laser light is radiated to the first region to remove the coating film, and a third region, in part of the first region, where the coating film is penetrated and the base is dug down, and the surface roughness of the third region is smaller than the surface roughness of the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventor: Shogo KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220316554
    Abstract: A V-ribbed belt includes a plurality of V-shaped ribs, each of the plurality of V-shaped ribs includes a V-shaped rib body formed from a rubber composition and a rib-side reinforcing fabric covering a surface of the V-shaped rib body, the rib-side reinforcing fabric is a woven fabric containing a first fiber and a second fiber, and in the woven fabric, at least either the first fiber or the second fiber is inclined relative to a longitudinal direction and a width direction of the belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo KOBAYASHI, Yuya SHINDO
  • Patent number: 11461817
    Abstract: An accommodation area management device, which manages an accommodation area for accommodating a moving body, includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information including a desired environment regarding an accommodation position of the moving body when the moving body enters the accommodation area, an accommodation position determination unit configured to determine the accommodation position of the moving body based upon the information, and a use fee determination unit configured to determine a use fee of the accommodation area based upon at least one of the information and the accommodation position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Gaku Shimamoto, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi, Shogo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11441020
    Abstract: A power transmission belt includes a pulley non-contacting portion made of a rubber composition. The rubber composition contains a rubber component, cellulose-based fine fibers, and a non-carbon black hydrophilic inorganic filler, and contains no carbon black or contains carbon black in an amount of less than 20 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Shogo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11443630
    Abstract: A parking lot management device which manages a parking lot for accommodating a vehicle and stops the vehicle at a predetermined accommodation position in the parking lot, includes a priority assigning unit which assigns a priority to each of a plurality of moving bodies traveling in the parking lot according to an order in which each vehicle is traveled. The priority assigning unit assigns the priority to each vehicle according to a moving destination of each vehicle in the parking lot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gaku Shimamoto, Junpei Noguchi, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi, Shogo Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220282769
    Abstract: A V-ribbed belt includes a plurality of V-shaped ribs, each of the plurality of V-shaped ribs includes a V-shaped rib body formed from a crosslinked rubber composition and a fiber member covering a surface of the V-shaped rib body, the crosslinked rubber composition is a crosslinked product of an uncrosslinked rubber composition containing a rubber component, a crosslinking agent, and at least either an unsaturated carboxylic acid metal salt or a maleimide compound, and a total amount of the unsaturated carboxylic acid metal salt and the maleimide compound per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component is 1 to 40 parts by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo KOBAYASHI, Yuya SHINDO, Kazuaki MATSUDA, Takayuki OKUBO
  • Patent number: 11420619
    Abstract: A parking lot management device which manages a parking lot for accommodating a vehicle and stops the vehicle at a predetermined parking space in the parking lot includes an acquisition unit which acquires position information of the vehicle in the parking lot, a determination unit which determines whether it is necessary to change a target parking space in which the vehicle should be stopped to a second parking space different from a first parking space in the parking lot when the vehicle is stopped in the first parking space in the parking lot based on the position information acquired by the acquisition unit, and a processing unit which performs a process of changing the target parking space subject to permission of a user of the vehicle when the determination unit determines that it is necessary to change the target parking space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gaku Shimamoto, Junpei Noguchi, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi, Shogo Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220243786
    Abstract: A friction transmission belt includes a compression layer forming a pulley contact portion, the compression layer includes an inner layer formed from a rubber composition and an outer layer provided on a pulley contact side of the inner layer and formed from a fiber member, and a ratio (M10 modulus/M50 modulus) of an modulus at 10% elongation in a belt longitudinal direction (M10 modulus) to an modulus at 50% elongation in the belt longitudinal direction (M50 modulus), of the rubber composition, is not less than 1.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuya SHINDO, Shogo KOBAYASHI, Kazuaki MATSUDA
  • Patent number: 11313435
    Abstract: A large V-belt includes an endless rubber belt body including an adhesive rubber layer and a cord embedded in the adhesive rubber layer of the belt body. The large V-belt has a belt thickness of 15 mm or more and the belt width of 10 mm or more at the center, in a belt thickness direction, of a cord embedded position. The belt body further includes reinforced rubber layers made of a rubber composition having a type A durometer hardness of 92 or more, the reinforced rubber layers being stacked on a belt inner side and/or a belt outer side of the adhesive rubber layer in the belt thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ikuhito Doi, Shogo Kobayashi, Yoshihito Nakahira
  • Publication number: 20220090648
    Abstract: A large V-belt includes an endless rubber belt body including an adhesive rubber layer and a cord embedded in the adhesive rubber layer of the belt body. The large V-belt has a belt thickness of 15 mm or more and the belt width of 10 mm or more at the center, in a belt thickness direction, of a cord embedded position. The belt body further includes reinforced rubber layers made of a rubber composition having a type A durometer hardness of 92 or more, the reinforced rubber layers being stacked on a belt inner side and/or a belt outer side of the adhesive rubber layer in the belt thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ikuhito DOI, Shogo KOBAYASHI, Yoshihito NAKAHIRA