Patents by Inventor Takayuki Kobayashi

Takayuki 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: 20250012706
    Abstract: A flow cell includes: a main body that includes a flow passage through which fluid containing a substance from which physical property data is to be measured flows, and contains a resin; and an optical system which is disposed on a part of a wall surface forming the flow passage and condenses measurement light for the physical property data and of which an emission surface for the measurement light is in contact with the fluid flowing through the flow passage, in which at least a part of an opposite wall surface that is the wall surface facing the optical system and at least a part of a side wall surface that is the wall surface interposed between the opposite wall surface and the optical system are covered with a metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Takashi YAMAMOTO, Takayuki NISHI, Yuka KOBAYASHI, Masataka HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 12187098
    Abstract: A vehicle air conditioner includes: a refrigeration cycle in which a refrigerant circulates; a high-temperature cycle in which a first heat medium in liquid form heated by the refrigeration cycle circulates; a low-temperature cycle in which a second heat medium in liquid form cooled by the refrigeration cycle circulates; and a seat that is provided in a vehicle interior and has a warm flow passage and a cold flow passage disposed close to each other. The warm flow passage is provided on the route of the high-temperature cycle, and the cold flow passage is provided on the route of the low-temperature cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Tanabe, Takayuki Kobayashi, Hideaki Tatenoi, Tomoki Hase, Masahiro Ohta
  • Publication number: 20250006095
    Abstract: A display device with a narrower frame can be provided. In the display device, a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer are provided to be stacked. The first layer includes a gate driver circuit and a data driver circuit, the second layer includes a demultiplexer circuit, and the third layer includes a display portion. In the display portion, pixels are arranged in a matrix, an input terminal of the demultiplexer circuit is electrically connected to the data driver circuit, and an output terminal of the demultiplexer circuit is electrically connected to some of the pixels. The gate driver circuit and the data driver circuit are provided to include a region overlapping some of the pixels. The gate driver circuit and the data driver circuit have a region where they are not strictly separated from each other and overlap each other. Five or more gate driver circuits and five or more data driver circuits can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Takashi NAKAGAWA, Takayuki IKEDA, Hidetomo KOBAYASHI, Hideaki SHISHIDO, Shuichi KATSUI, Kiyotaka KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20240425326
    Abstract: A detection device includes processing circuitry configured to acquire sensor information from at least one sensor; the at least one sensor configured to be disposed on at least one of balustrades erected on both right and left sides with respect to a moving direction of steps of at least one passenger conveyor, each of the balustrades including a plurality of side plates; determine whether or not the detection target is a designated target to be warned on a basis of the acquired sensor information; and display a warning image indicating the designated target on a display device in a case where the processing circuitry determines that the detection target is the designated target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke FUJIGAYA, Naoki TSURU, Sayaka KOBAYASHI, Kazufumi YOSHIDA, Kyosuke ISHII, Kei SUWA, Takayuki KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240416990
    Abstract: A current detection device includes a current detection unit configured to detect current flowing through a switching element of a lower-side arm; a correction value calculation unit configured to calculate an offset correction value, based on a detection value of the current detected by the current detection unit in a period during which the switching element off during PWM control, and to hold and update the calculated offset correction value; and a correction unit configured to correct, by the offset correction value held by the correction value calculation unit, the detection value of the current detected by the current detection unit in a period during which the switching element is on. The correction value calculation unit is configured to not update the offset correction value in a case where a duty ratio of the PWM control is equal to or less than a duty ratio lower limit value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki KOBAYASHI, Kyosho URYU
  • Publication number: 20240416723
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicular refrigeration cycle unit that is interposed between a vehicle-outside heat exchanger and a vehicle-inside heat exchanger and that exchanges heat between secondary refrigerants respectively flowing through the vehicle-outside heat exchanger and the vehicle-inside heat exchanger. The vehicular refrigeration cycle unit includes a refrigeration cycle provided in a device accommodation space inside a vehicle, the refrigeration cycle including a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, and an evaporator through which a primary refrigerant having flammability and having a higher specific gravity than atmosphere flows sequentially, and a leakage sensor located below the compressor, the condenser, and the evaporator and is configured to detect the concentration of the primary refrigerant contained in air in the device accommodation space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideto NOYAMA, Takayuki KOBAYASHI, Nobuya NAKAGAWA, Katsuhiro SAITO, Masatoshi MORISHITA, Hirotaka TANABE, Hirofumi HIRATA, Shinya HAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240413922
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is an optical transmission system including a transmitter connected to a transmission line having M spatial channels, and a receiver that receives a signal transmitted from the transmitter via the transmission line, wherein the transmitter includes: an allocator that allocates a transmission bit string transmitted to the transmission line into a bit string serving as a basic signal and a bit string serving as spatial channel information; a generator that generates N (M>N) signals from the bit string serving as the basic signal allocated by the allocator; and a selector that selects N spatial channels, through which the N signals generated by the generator are transmitted, from the M spatial channels on the basis of the bit string serving as the spatial channel information allocated by the allocator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira KAWAI, Takayuki KOBAYASHI, Masanori NAKAMURA, Shimpei SHIMIZU, Yutaka MIYAMOTO
  • Patent number: 12157189
    Abstract: Provided is a joint structure. The joint structure includes a first structure, and a second structure joined to the first structure via a joint portion formed of a Au—Sn-based alloy, wherein a thickness of the joint portion is 3 ?m or more and 50 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL Chemical & Material Co., Ltd., NIPPON MICROMETAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masamoto Tanaka, Kiyotsugu Komori, Keisuke Akashi, Katsuhiko Hoshino, Tsunekazu Yamazaki, Takayuki Kobayashi, Sukeyoshi Yamamoto, Kensuke Misawa
  • Patent number: 12160712
    Abstract: This air conditioning device for a vehicle comprises: a refrigeration cycle having a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, and an evaporator through which refrigerant sequentially flows; a high-temperature heat medium circuit in which a high-temperature heat medium that has been heat-exchanged with the refrigerant in the condenser circulates; a low-temperature heat medium circuit in which a low-temperature heat medium that has been heat-exchanged with the refrigerant in the evaporator circulates; a connection line for connecting the high-temperature heat medium circuit and the low-temperature heat medium circuit; a plurality of heat exchangers outside the vehicle that allow introduction of the heat medium; and a switching unit capable of switching modes for each of the plurality of heat exchangers outside the vehicle, among a mode for connecting to the high-temperature heat medium circuit, a mode for connecting to the low-temperature heat medium circuit, and a mode for not connecting to either of the h
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Kobayashi, Hirotaka Tanabe, Tomoki Hase, Masahiro Ohta, Hideaki Tatenoi, Koji Nakado
  • Publication number: 20240388376
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is a signal detection device including a mode demultiplexer configured to convert N (N is a natural number) spatial mode signals including a plurality of higher modes excited in a transmission path fiber into N base modes and output the N basis modes, a frequency conversion unit configured to convert N optical signals into frequencies different from each other, a multiplexing unit configured to multiplex the N optical signals having frequencies that have been converted, and a reception unit configured to photoelectrically convert a multiplexed optical signal while maintaining modulation information for a phase and polarization, perform digital signal conversion and signal processing, and demodulate an original information sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Koki SHIBAHARA, Takayuki KOBAYASHI, Fukutaro Hamaoka, Shimpei SHIMIZU, Yutaka MIYAMOTO
  • Patent number: 12146532
    Abstract: A clutch device includes a pressure plate movable toward or away from a clutch center and rotatable relative to the clutch center to press input-side rotating plates and output-side rotating plates. The clutch center includes center-side cam portions each including a center-side assist cam surface. At least one of the center-side cam portions includes at least one of a first center-side recess recessed in a first direction from a surface of center-side cam portion at a side of a second direction or a second center-side recess recessed in the second direction from a surface of the center-side cam portion at a side of the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA F.C.C.
    Inventors: Yuki Kobayashi, Takayuki Suzuki, Takayoshi Mimuro, Jun Komukai, Yasunori Higashi, Makoto Kambara, Satoshi Ota, Yukinori Kurita
  • Patent number: 12129855
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes a compression portion, an electric motor, an inverter, a housing, a support bracket, a vibration insulator, and a soundproofing cover. The compression portion is configured to compress a fluid. The electric motor is configured to drive the compression portion. The inverter is configured to drive the electric motor. The housing includes an outer peripheral surface that has a cylindrical shape and accommodates the compression portion, the electric motor, and the inverter. The support bracket is fastened to the housing and supports the housing to an object to which the electric compressor is mounted. The vibration insulator is interposed between the support bracket and the object. The soundproofing cover is made of an elastically deformable sound absorbing material and covers the housing and the support bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Noritaka Nishimori, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Suehiro Fukazawa, Toshiyuki Miyano, Takayuki Kato
  • Patent number: 12132025
    Abstract: There is provided a metal-coated Al bonding wire which can provide a sufficient bonding reliability of bonded parts of the bonding wire under a high temperature state where a semiconductor device using the metal-coated Al bonding wire is operated. The bonding wire includes a core wire of Al or Al alloy, and a coating layer of Ag, Au or an alloy containing them formed on the outer periphery of the core wire, and the bonding wire is characterized in that when measuring crystal orientations on a cross-section of the core wire in a direction perpendicular to a wire axis of the bonding wire, a crystal orientation <111> angled at 15 degrees or less to a wire longitudinal direction has a proportion of 30 to 90% among crystal orientations in the wire longitudinal direction. Preferably, the surface roughness of the wire is 2 ?m or less in terms of Rz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignees: NIPPON MICROMETAL CORPORATION, NIPPON STEEL Chemical & Material Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamada, Akihito Nishibayashi, Teruo Haibara, Daizo Oda, Motoki Eto, Tetsuya Oyamada, Takayuki Kobayashi, Tomohiro Uno
  • Patent number: 12120918
    Abstract: A display device with less display unevenness is provided. The display device includes a first layer and a second layer over the first layer; the first layer includes first circuits arranged in m rows and n columns; the second layer includes pixel blocks arranged in the m rows and the n columns; the pixel blocks each comprise pixels arranged in a rows and b columns; the pixel block includes a first wiring and a second wiring electrically connected to the pixel; the first wiring and the second wiring included in the pixel block in the i-th row and the j-th column are each electrically connected to the first circuit in the i-th row and the j-th column; the first wiring has a function of supplying an input signal from the first circuit to the pixel; and the second wiring has a function of supplying an output signal from the pixel to the first circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetomo Kobayashi, Takayuki Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20240327670
    Abstract: To provide a novel resin composition that contains a polyethylene terephthalate resin and a polybutylene terephthalate resin, as well as a resin composition, a molded article, a composite, and a metal-resin composite formed from such resin composition. The resin composition contains an inorganic filler with respect to a total of 100 parts by mass of a polybutylene erephthalate resin and a polyethylene terephthalate resin, wherein a mass ratio of the polybutylene terephthalate resin and the polyethylene terephthalate resin with respect to a total of 100 parts by mass of the polybutylene terephthalate resin and the polyethylene terephthalate resin is from 10/90 to 90/10, and the polyethylene terephthalate resin comprises from 1.0 to 100 ?g/g of elemental iron.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki SUZUKI, Rina KOBAYASHI, Tatsuya KURODA, Yuki HIWATASHI, Hidekazu SHOJI
  • Publication number: 20240326562
    Abstract: A vehicular refrigeration cycle unit is a vehicular refrigeration cycle unit installed between a vehicle exterior heat exchanger and a vehicle interior heat exchanger and exchanging heat between secondary refrigerants respectively flowing through the vehicle exterior heat exchanger and the vehicle interior heat exchanger, the vehicular refrigeration cycle unit including: a refrigeration cycle including a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, and an evaporator through which a primary refrigerant sequentially flows; an exterior flow passage through which the secondary refrigerant is circulated between the evaporator and the vehicle exterior heat exchanger; an interior flow passage through which the secondary refrigerant is circulated between the condenser and the vehicle interior heat exchanger; a pair of flow passage switching valves connecting the exterior flow passage and the interior flow passage to allow to switch the flow state of the second refrigerant between the exterior flow passage and the int
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki KOBAYASHI, Tetsuzo UKAI, Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO, Katsuhiro SAITO, Masatoshi MORISHITA, Hideto NOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240317994
    Abstract: A resin composition contains a polybutylene terephthalate resin and a polyethylene terephthalate resin, wherein a mass ratio of the polybutylene terephthalate resin and the polyethylene terephthalate resin with respect to a total of 100 parts by mass of the polybutylene terephthalate resin and the polyethylene terephthalate resin is from 10/90 to 90/10, and wherein, when one cycle is defined as an operation in which, based on JIS K7121, a temperature is increased by DSC from 40° C. to 300° C. at a rate of temperature increase of 20° C./min and then the temperature is reduced to 40° C. at a rate of temperature cooling of ?20° C./min, the polyethylene terephthalate resin has an absolute value of a heat of crystallization during a heating phase in a first cycle (?HTc1-1st) and/or an absolute value of a heat of crystallization during the heating phase in a second cycle (?HTc1-2nd) of the operation of less than 3 J/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki SUZUKI, Rina KOBAYASHI, Tatsuya KURODA, Yuki HIWATASHI
  • Publication number: 20240317974
    Abstract: To provide a resin composition containing a polyethylene terephthalate resin and an inorganic filler, wherein when one cycle is defined as an operation in which, based on JIS K7121, a temperature is increased by DSC from 40° C. to 300° C. at a rate of temperature increase of 20° C./min and then the temperature is reduced to 40° C. at a rate of temperature cooling of ?20° C./min, the polyethylene terephthalate resin has an absolute value of a heat of crystallization during a heating phase in a first cycle (?HTc1-1st) of the operation and/or an absolute value of a heat of crystallization during the heating phase in a second cycle (?HTc1-2nd) of less than 3 J/g, and a content of the inorganic filler in the resin composition is 40% by mass or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki SUZUKI, Rina KOBAYASHI, Tatsuya KURODA, Yuki HIWATASHI
  • Patent number: D1044235
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: ASICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Umehara, Hiroaki Nishimura, Yoshihiro Eguchi, Takayuki Kogure, Naoki Sakajo, Yoshikazu Mitsuhata, Shingo Masumoto, Takanori Kobayashi
  • Patent number: D1052537
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Toshiro Kobuchi, Takayuki Nishimura, Takuya Takahashi