Patents by Inventor Takashi Kobayashi

Takashi 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: 20230083560
    Abstract: A field effect transistor includes at least one line trench extending downward from a top surface of a channel region which laterally surrounds or underlies the at least one line trench, a gate dielectric contacting all surfaces of the at least one line trench and including a planar gate dielectric portion that extends over an entirety of a top surface of the channel region, a gate electrode, a source region, and a drain region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro TOGO, Takashi KOBAYASHI, Sudarshan NARAYANAN
  • Publication number: 20230082468
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a T-joint including a first steel sheet, a second steel sheet, and a fillet welded part, in which the sheet thickness of the second steel sheet is 6.0 mm or less, the second steel sheet is stood on a first surface of the first steel sheet, the fillet welded part joins the first surface of the first steel sheet and a first surface of the second steel sheet to each other, at least one of the first surface of the first steel sheet or the first surface of the second steel sheet includes a zinc-based plating, an abutting end portion of the second steel sheet on a second surface side of the second steel sheet has an inclined surface, and in a cross section taken along a sheet thickness direction of the first steel sheet and a sheet thickness direction of the second steel sheet, the inclined surface forms an acute angle with respect to the first surface of the first steel sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinari ISHIDA, Akinobu KOBAYASHI, Takashi YASUTOMI
  • Publication number: 20230079098
    Abstract: A field effect transistor includes at least one line trench extending downward from a top surface of a channel region which laterally surrounds or underlies the at least one line trench, a gate dielectric contacting all surfaces of the at least one line trench and including a planar gate dielectric portion that extends over an entirety of a top surface of the channel region, a gate electrode, a source region, and a drain region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro TOGO, Takashi KOBAYASHI, Sudarshan NARAYANAN
  • Publication number: 20230082044
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image obtainer that obtains captured images captured with a camera in a time series, an accumulator that accumulates movement information about a moving object in the captured images in the time series, a calculator that calculates movement information about the moving object based on the captured images in the time series obtained by the image obtainer, a comparator that compares the movement information about the moving object calculated by the calculator with the movement information about the moving object accumulated by the accumulator, a determiner that determines, based on a result of comparison of the movement information about the moving object performed by the comparator, whether the moving object being a target for the comparison performed by the comparator shows abnormal movement, and an output unit that outputs a result of determination performed by the determiner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Ayana TSUJI, Takashi OHTA, Tsuyoshi KOBAYASHI, Toshifumi KISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230070046
    Abstract: A traffic control apparatus, a traffic control system, and a traffic control method that can facilitate an operation of an autonomous driving vehicle are provided. A traffic control apparatus includes analysis means for analyzing a state of a vehicle based on information about the vehicle including an autonomous driving function, specifying means for specifying a control policy, which is predetermined control to be transmitted to the vehicle, based on the analyzed state of the vehicle and remote control means for controlling driving of the vehicle based on the specified control policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro MIZUKOSHI, Masayuki Sakata, Takashi Yamane, Takanori Iwai, Koichi Nihei, Kosei Kobayashi, Yusuke Shinohara
  • Patent number: 11600645
    Abstract: An imaging device that can obtain imaging data corresponding to high-resolution images in a short period of time is provided. The imaging device includes a pixel including a photoelectric conversion element and n (n is an integer more than 2 inclusive) retention circuits. The photoelectric conversion element and the n retention circuits are stacked. One electrode of the photoelectric conversion element is electrically connected to the first to n-th retention circuits. The retention circuits include OS transistors with an extremely low off-state current feature, and can retain imaging data for a long time. In the first to n-th periods, the imaging device obtains the first to n-th imaging data and retains it in the first to n-th retention circuits. Then, the first to n-th imaging data retained in the first to n-th retention circuits are read out. The read imaging data is output outside the imaging data through AD conversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichi Yoneda, Hidetomo Kobayashi, Takashi Nakagawa, Yusuke Negoro, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20230061655
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a flicker frequency of a subject light source by sampling an output signal of a sensor in first sampling processing, a determination unit configured to determine whether the detected flicker frequency falls within a detection target range, by sampling an output signal of the sensor in second sampling processing, and a control unit configured to perform control to notify a user in response to determination by the determination unit that the detected flicker frequency falls out of a detection target range in the first sampling processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventor: Takashi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230067889
    Abstract: A method for producing a sugar anhydride, said method comprising: (1) a step for conducting a first heat treatment by heating a polysaccharide having a reducing end at 130-350° C. in the presence of an alcohol compound having 1-10 carbon atoms and not having an acetal structure; (2) a step for conducting a second heat treatment by heating the polysaccharide having been heated in the first heat treatment and thus thermally decomposing the polysaccharide to thereby give a gaseous sugar anhydride, without forming a char or with forming a filmy char, and without generating carbon monoxide or with regulating the generation amount of carbon monoxide, if any, to not more than 5 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the absolute dry mass of the polysaccharide; and (3) a collection step for cooling the gaseous sugar anhydride to a temperature equal to or lower than the boiling point thereof and then collecting the same. According to this method, a sugar anhydride can be easily produced at a high yield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicants: KYOTO UNIVERSITY, SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruo KAWAMOTO, Eiji MINAMI, Takashi NOMURA, Hinano MIZUNO, Kazuto KOBAYASHI, Akiko MIKI
  • Patent number: 11588985
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprises an image sensor including a first pixel group and a second pixel group, and capable of actuating the pixel groups with the same or different shooting conditions; a controller that switches between a first actuation control of actuating the first and second pixel groups with the same shooting conditions and a second actuation control of actuating the first and second pixel groups with different shooting conditions; a detector that detects flicker based on a signal read out from the image sensor; and a determination unit that determines whether or not the detector can detect flicker based on a signal read out from the image sensor by the second actuation control. If the determination unit determines affirmative, the controller controls to actuate the second pixel group with the shooting conditions for flicker detection in the second actuation control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230022181
    Abstract: A high-definition display device is provided. A small display device is provided. In the display device, a first layer and a second layer are stacked and provided. The first layer includes a gate driver circuit and a source driver circuit, and the second layer includes a display portion. The gate driver circuit and the source driver circuit are provided to include a region overlapping with the display portion. The gate driver circuit and the source driver circuit have an overlap region where they are not strictly separated from each other. Five or more gate driver circuits and five or more source driver circuits can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Takayuki IKEDA, Hidetomo KOBAYASHI, Hideaki SHISHIDO, Kiyotaka KIMURA, Takashi NAKAGAWA, Kosei NEI
  • Publication number: 20230019809
    Abstract: A radiation detector includes a support table, a sensor panel, a fixing member, and a contact member. An attachment surface having an arc surface shape is formed in the support table. The sensor panel has an imaging region in which a plurality of pixels detecting radiation are two-dimensionally arranged. A first surface of the sensor panel is attached to the attachment surface following the arc surface shape. The fixing member partially fixes the first surface to the attachment surface. The contact member comes into contact with a second surface of the sensor panel which is opposite to the first surface to suppress the lifting of the sensor panel from the support table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Hisatsugu HORIUCHI, Takashi TAJIMA, Masakazu FUKUYO, Naoyuki NISHINO, Takeyasu KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230018944
    Abstract: An active energy ray curing composition can be applied to cured matter of a first active energy ray curing composition. The active energy ray curing composition contains a second active energy ray curing composition containing a monofunctional monomer, a polyfunctional monomer, and a photopolymerization initiator. The proportion of the polyfunctional monomer to the second active energy ray composition is 60 percent by mass or more. The proportion of the polyfunctional monomer modified with the same number of an oxyalkylene group as the number of functional groups of the polyfunctional monomer is 90 percent by mass of the polyfunctional monomer, and the proportion of a tri- or higher polyfunctional monomer is 50 percent by mass or more to the modified polyfunctional monomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Soh NOGUCHI, Takashi Okada, Masahide Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230012173
    Abstract: To facilitate evaluation of a predicted process shape in process recipe development using machine learning, a process recipe search apparatus that searches for an etching recipe that is a parameter of a plasma processing apparatus set so as to etch a sample into a desired shape displays, on a display device, the predicted process shape of the sample by a candidate etching recipe predicted by using a machine leaning model, by highlighting a difference between the predicted process shape and a target shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Takashi Dobashi, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Takeshi Ohmori
  • Patent number: 11551163
    Abstract: The control apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire time slot data indicating an available time slot at a place that provides a service, and generate announcement data announcing a proposal to take a user to the place using a vehicle should the user reserve the time slot indicated by the time slot data, and a communication interface configured to transmit the announcement data generated by the controller to a terminal apparatus configured to present content of data to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chikage Kubo, Yusuke Kobayashi, Minoru Kubota, Kentaro Takahashi, Hideo Hasegawa, Takashi Horiguchi
  • Patent number: 11529302
    Abstract: Provided is a composition including: an acrylamide compound represented by general formula (1) below; urethane (meth)acrylate having a SI value of 3 or less in a skin sensitization test; and a polymerization initiator having a molecular weight of 800 or greater, where in general formula (1), R1 represents an alkyl group containing 1 through 6 carbon atoms, X represents an alkylene group containing 1 through 6 carbon atoms, and Y represents any one selected from the group consisting of general formula (2) below and general formula (3) below, where in general formula (2), R2 represents an alkyl group containing 1 through 10 carbon atoms, and * represents a binding site with X above, where in general formula (3), R2 represents an alkyl group containing 1 through 10 carbon atoms, and * represents a binding site with X above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takenori Suenaga, Masahide Kobayashi, Mitsunobu Morita, Takashi Okada, Soh Noguchi, Tatsuki Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20220397898
    Abstract: A remote control request method has requesting, by a computer, a remote operator to perform remote control on an autonomous driving vehicle when the autonomous driving vehicle currently has or is expected to have difficulty in continuing autonomous driving, requesting remote assistance in which the remote operator makes at least a part of determination for the autonomous driving inside an autonomous driving domain, and requesting, outside the autonomous driving domain, remote driving in which the remote operator performs at least one of a steering operation and an acceleration or deceleration operation of the autonomous driving vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Urano, Sho Otaki, Takashi Suzuki, Toru Takashima, Hojung Jung, Hiromitsu Kobayashi, Satoru Niwa, Kosuke Akatsuka
  • Publication number: 20220391838
    Abstract: A product delivery system includes: a center server; a store server; a driver configured to be coupled with and decoupled from a carriage; and a terminal. A processor of the center server is configured to: acquire a scheduled loading time representing a completion time of loading of a product onto the carriage at the store, when order information on the product is output from the terminal to the store server; output, to the driver, an instruction for causing the driver to depart from a current position to the store in time for the scheduled loading time; and output, to the driver, an instruction for causing the driver coupled with the carriage to depart from the store to a delivery destination of the product, when acquiring, from the store server, a loading completion notification indicating that loading of the product onto the carriage has been completed at the store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Kayo KIMURA, Yoshihiro SHIMADA, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Takashi NISHIMURA, Zixun MEI
  • Patent number: 11513748
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises an accommodating unit that accommodates recording materials and a feeding unit that feeds an accommodated recording material, detects a fed recording material, and measures time from a predetermined timing until a recording material is detected. An information processing apparatus receives measured time data from the image forming apparatus, classifies the received plurality of time data into a first group and a second group in accordance with a length of time, selects a group for predicting a remaining life time of the feeding unit from the classified first group and second group, and predicts a remaining life time of the feeding unit using time data included in the selected group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Kobayashi, Takashi Yano, Hidehiro Ushiozu, Masato Suzuki, Kosuke Ogino
  • Patent number: D975845
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignees: HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY, OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL FACTORY, INC.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Hiroki Maita, Hiroyuki Kato, Takashi Akimoto, Takehito Hayashi, Koichi Takeda, Toshimitsu Terao, Tomoki Morita, Shinichiro Ito, Tadashi Komuro, Teruyuki Iwama
  • Patent number: D980075
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: AICELLO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Tetsuro Ogawa, Masayoshi Kobayashi