Patents by Inventor Tadashi Kobayashi

Tadashi 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).

  • Optical disk and optical disk drive
    Publication number: 20030095489
    Abstract: An optical disk comprises a prepit head data recording area surrounded by non-record areas in a radial direction and a circumferential direction of the optical disk, and a data record track specified by prepit header data recorded on the prepit head data recording area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2002
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Kazuo Watabe
  • Proximity sensor and object detecting device
    Publication number: 20030080755
    Abstract: In a proximity sensor, in order that it is not affected by a cable length and an environment of a setting place or the like, and that it is extremely stable in operation, and that it can be used nearing in a maintenance-free state, there are included a detecting electrode arranged in an object detecting area and made of a metal plate formed like a plate; a charge system with a direct current power source; a discharge system with a current detecting unit; and a switch for alternately switching the charge system and the discharge system to the detecting electrode by a specified switching frequency, and an electrostatic capacity between a detected object and the detecting electrode is detected as current flowing in the discharge system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2002
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA HONDA DENSHI GIKEN
    Inventor: Tadashi Kobayashi
  • Information recording medium and recording/reproducing apparatus compatible with copy protection
    Patent number: 6549494
    Abstract: Identification information B is recorded in a specific area for a disk in a pre-recording or emboss manner so that a user cannot be rewrite the information, and a copy of the identification information B cannot be changed on the information recording medium by a recording/reproducing apparatus, thereby making it possible to prevent illegal use of the identification information B. In an additional description type information recording medium or rewritable information recording medium, the identification information B is pre-recorded or emboss recorded in a specific area so that the identification information cannot be changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Tadashi Kobayashi
  • Gas turbine plant
    Publication number: 20030056513
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant comprises an air compressor, gas turbine turbine including at least one high temperature section, a driven equipment, which are operatively connected in series, a gas turbine combustor arranged between the air compressor and the gas turbine, a fuel system disposed for supplying a fuel to the gas turbine combustor, and a heat exchange section for heating the fuel from the fuel by means of a high pressure air as a heating medium fed from the air compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Takanari Okamura, Shokou Ito, Takashi Sasaki, Akinori Koga
  • Video distribution device and a video receiving device
    Publication number: 20030051256
    Abstract: A video distribution device 10 is a device communicating with a video receiving device 20 via a communication network 30, which includes a video acquisition unit 110 that acquires plural videos taken from various perspectives, a video analysis unit 120 that analyzes a detail contained in the video on a video basis and generates its analysis result as content information, and a video matching unit 130 that verifies a conformity level of each content information with preference information notified by a viewer, decides a video to be distributed, and distributes the video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2002
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Inventors: Akira Uesaki, Tadashi Kobayashi, Toshiki Hijiri, Yoshiyuki Mochizuki
  • Optical disc, optical disc recording/reproducing apparatus, and optical disc recording/reproducing method
    Publication number: 20030021201
    Abstract: In an optical disc in/from which data is recorded or reproduced by irradiating a storage area on the optical disc with a laser, information containing recording velocity information (RVI) for recording/reproduction, which represents a linear velocity different from the standard linear velocity, and write strategy information (WSI) corresponding to the recording velocity information is stored in a land pre-pit or the like on the optical disc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventor: Tadashi Kobayashi
  • Information recording medium and method of manufacturing resinous substrate for use in the recording medium
    Patent number: 6465069
    Abstract: An information recording medium comprising a substrate having a recording surface provided with emboss pits or guiding grooves, a reflective film formed on the recording surface of the substrate, and a first protective film formed on the reflective film. This information recording medium is featured in that both sides of the information recording medium are constituted by a first surface provided with the protective film and by a second surface formed opposite to the first surface, and that an irradiated light beam is irradiated through the first surface, a recorded information being reproduced based on changes in light intensity of the reflected light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Hisashi Yamada
  • Information recording medium and method of manufacturing resinous substrate for use in the recording medium
    Patent number: 6451401
    Abstract: An information recording medium comprising a substrate having a recording surface provided with emboss pits or guiding grooves, a reflective film formed on the recording surface of the substrate, and a first protective film formed on the reflective film. This information recording medium is featured in that both sides of the information recording medium are constituted by a first surface provided with the protective film and by a second surface formed opposite to the first surface, and that an irradiated light beam is irradiated through the first surface, a recorded information being reproduced based on changes in light intensity of the reflected light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Hisashi Yamada
  • Finisher
    Patent number: 6436024
    Abstract: A finisher includes a folding device which folds a sheet having an image formed surface, a reversing mechanism which reverses the sheet, and a conveying path for conveying the sheet bypassing the reversing mechanism. The finisher decides whether to pass the sheet through the reversing mechanism based on whether the sheet is to be folded. The finisher adjusts both folded sheets and unfolded sheets in the order of page numbers and staples a sheaf of the sheets easily and accurately, and also utilizes space efficiently and prevents the finisher size from enlarging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi Kobayashi
  • Gas turbine plant
    Publication number: 20020092301
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant comprises an air compressor, gas turbine turbine including at least one high temperature section, a driven equipment, which are operatively connected in series, a gas turbine combustor arranged between the air compressor and the gas turbine, a fuel system disposed for supplying a fuel to the gas turbine combustor, and a heat exchange section for heating the fuel from the fuel by means of a high pressure air as a heating medium fed from the air compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Takanari Okamura, Shokou Ito, Takashi Sasaki, Akinori Koga
  • Information recording medium and recording/reproducing apparatus compatible with copy protection
    Publication number: 20020060963
    Abstract: Identification information B is recorded in a specific area for a disk in a pre-recording or emboss manner so that a user cannot be rewrite the information, and a copy of the identification information B cannot be changed on the information recording medium by a recording/reproducing apparatus, thereby making it possible to prevent illegal use of the identification information B. In an additional description type information recording medium or rewritable information recording medium, the identification information B is pre-recorded or emboss recorded in a specific area so that the identification information cannot be changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2001
    Publication date: May 23, 2002
    Inventor: Tadashi Kobayashi
  • Image object content generation device and padding device
    Publication number: 20020051007
    Abstract: An image object content generation device 10 comprises a key generation unit 11 that generates a key that is a reference for distinguishing an object pixel from a background pixel per pixel of an inputted image signal, a frame size changing unit 12 that changes a frame size of the image signal, a low frequency component passing unit 13 that removes high frequency components of the image signal which was processed in the frame size changing unit 12, a pixel compensation unit 14 that performs a padding processing to the image signal which was processed in the low frequency component passing unit 13 by using Low Pass Extrapolation padding algorithm, and a pixel selecting unit 15 that selects one of the image signal which was processed in the low frequency component passing unit 13 and the image signal which was processed in the pixel compensation unit 14.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2001
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Inventors: Daisaku Kitagawa, Yoshiyuki Mochizuki, Tadashi Kobayashi
  • Ventilated disc
    Patent number: 6367599
    Abstract: An inner disc portion and an outer disc portion are connected through first to fifth connecting ribs. The second and third connecting ribs which are provided on the outer diameter side are inclined reversely to each other so that a portion where the distance between outer-diameter-side end portions of the second and third connecting ribs is wider and a portion where the distance is narrower are provided alternately. The fourth connecting ribs are provided in the portions where the distance is wider respectively. In addition, each of the fifth connecting ribs are provided between the first connecting ribs and the second and third connecting ribs respectively. The inclination angle &thgr; of the second and third connecting ribs is regulated so that the distances between the end portions of the respective ribs are equal to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi Kobayashi
  • Process method optical thermoplastic urethane resin lens and the lens
    Patent number: 6309568
    Abstract: A method of continuously fabricating a lens excellent in various optical characteristics and having no nonuniformity in the characteristics over a total of the lens and a lens fabricated by the method. A first step for forming thiourethane prepolymer and a second step for making thiourethane prepolymer react with at least one urethane forming monomer are carried out in an extruder or in a reactor having an extruding device at a succeeding step, extruded thermoplastic thiourethane-urethane copolymer for optical use is elongated in a sheet-like shape, a lens precursor is formed by punching out the copolymer elongated in a sheet-like shape and the lens precursor is pressed such that a predetermined curved face is provided at least on one face of the lens precursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignees: Asahi Lite Optical Co., Ltd., Optima Inc.
    Inventors: Zhou Yang, Zhenya Zhu, Yin-Nian Lin, Tadashi Kobayashi, Yuyoshi Saito
  • Gas turbine plant
    Publication number: 20010022087
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant comprises an air compressor, gas turbine turbine including at least one high temperature section, a driven equipment, which are operatively connected in series, a gas turbine combustor arranged between the air compressor and the gas turbine, a fuel system disposed for supplying a fuel to the gas turbine combustor, and a heat exchange section for heating the fuel from the fuel by means of a high pressure air as a heating medium fed from the air compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Takanari Okamura, Shokou Ito, Takashi Sasaki, Akinori Koga
  • Information recording medium and method of manufacturing resinous substrates for use in the recording medium
    Patent number: 6291047
    Abstract: An information recording medium comprising a substrate having a recording surface provided with emboss pits or guiding grooves, a reflective film formed on the recording surface of the substrate, and a first protective film formed on the reflective film. This information recording medium is featured in that both sides of the information recording medium are constituted by a first surface provided with the protective film and by a second surface formed opposite to the first surface, and that an irradiated light beam is irradiated through the first surface, a recorded information being reproduced based on changes in light intensity of the reflected light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Hisashi Yamada
  • Image generation apparatus, image generation method, image generation program recording medium, image composition apparatus, image composition method, and image composition program recording medium
    Patent number: 6271850
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image generation/composition apparatus and method capable of performing an anti-aliasing process or translucency process, and capable of obtaining a high quality image from shape data comprising coordinate values representing a three-dimensional shape without requiring an increase in cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuteru Kida, Tadashi Kobayashi, Akio Nishimura, Minobu Abe
  • Gas turbine plant with fuel heating and turbine cooling features
    Patent number: 6253554
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant comprises an air compressor, gas turbine including at least one high temperature section, and driven equipment, which are operatively connected in series, a gas turbine combustor arranged between the air compressor and the gas turbine, a fuel system disposed for supplying a fuel to the gas turbine combustor, and a heat exchange section for heating the fuel from the fuel by means of a high pressure air as a heating medium fed from the air compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Takanari Okamura, Shokou Ito, Takashi Sasaki, Akinori Koga
  • Ventilated disc
    Publication number: 20010002638
    Abstract: An inner disc portion and an outer disc portion are connected through first to fifth connecting ribs. The second and third connecting ribs which are provided on the outer diameter side are inclined reversely to each other so that a portion where the distance between outer-diameter-side end portions of the second and third connecting ribs is wider and a portion where the distance is narrower are provided alternately. The fourth connecting ribs are provided in the portions where the distance is wider respectively. In addition, each of the fifth connecting ribs are provided between the first connecting ribs and the second and third connecting ribs respectively. The inclination angle &thgr; of the second and third connecting ribs is regulated so that the distances between the end portions of the respective ribs are equal to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2000
    Publication date: June 7, 2001
    Applicant: Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Tadashi Kobayashi
  • Finisher for use with an image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 6213456
    Abstract: A finisher connected to a copying machine produces a bound booklet by inserting papers from the copying machine into a cover with an adhesive layer of a hot-melt adhesive which is coated on the inner surface of near a spine interconnecting a front board and a back board, and heating the cover and a sheaf of papers, and joining them by adhesion. Thus, the series of operations ranging from the preparation of documents through the bookbinding can be facilitated and expedited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Hirano, Kunihiko Kanou, Tadashi Kobayashi, Masahiro Nonoyama, Kazuhiko Nakatsuka, Shinji Wakamatsu, Kazuhito Ozawa