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).

  • 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: 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20240313216
    Abstract: Provided is a transition metal-containing hydroxide capable of improving the cycle characteristics and safety of a secondary battery, while imparting an excellent battery capacity to the secondary battery, by preventing the elution of an additive metal element, which contained in the transition metal-containing hydroxide, due to phase transition or segregation. A transition metal-containing hydroxide that is a precursor of a positive electrode active material in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, the transition metal-containing hydroxide containing at least one main metal element selected from the group consisting of Ni, Co and Mn and at least one additive metal element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ti, Zr, V, Nb, Cr, Mo, W, Fe, Ru, Cu, Zn, B, Al, Ga, Si, Sn, P and Bi, in which a cumulative pore volume in a BJH method measured by a gas adsorption method is 0.145 cm3/g or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicants: TANAKA CHEMICAL CORPORATION, PANASONIC ENERGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akari MAKIDA, Ryota KOBAYASHI, Masahiro TAKASHIMA, Kohei KINTSU, Shun NOMURA, Takeshi CHIBA, Takayuki ISHIKAWA, Takuya SHINOMIYA
  • Patent number: 12090578
    Abstract: There is provided an 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 Al bonding wire is operated. The bonding wire is composed of Al or Al alloy, and is characterized in that an average crystal grain size in a cross-section of a core wire in a direction perpendicular to a wire axis of the bonding wire is 0.01 to 50 ?m, and when measuring crystal orientations on the cross-section of the core wire in the direction perpendicular to the 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 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: 12092474
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire route information indicating a route on which a user is to travel, and travel information indicating a travel status of the user, detect, based on the acquired route information and the acquired travel information, a waiting point on the route, at which a waiting time period for the user is to occur, and output deceleration information for prompting the user to decelerate to delay, within a range of the waiting time period, arrival of the user at the detected waiting point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Oidemizu, Kazuyuki Inoue, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Yurika Tanaka, Tomokazu Maya, Satoshi Komamine
  • Patent number: 12089459
    Abstract: A display apparatus with low power consumption and high image quality is provided. The display apparatus includes a light-emitting element, a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a first capacitor, and a second capacitor. Preferably, one electrode of the light-emitting element is electrically connected to one of a source and a drain of the first transistor; the one electrode of the light-emitting element is electrically connected to one electrode of the first capacitor; a gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to one of a source and a drain of the second transistor; the gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to one electrode of the second capacitor; the other electrode of the second capacitor is electrically connected to the other electrode of the first capacitor; and the other electrode of the second capacitor is electrically connected to one of a source and a drain of the third transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetomo Kobayashi, Hideaki Shishido, Takayuki Ikeda, Shuichi Katsui
  • Patent number: 12087703
    Abstract: In a semiconductor device equipped with a current mirror circuit, a highly reliable semiconductor device capable of suppressing a change in a mirror ratio of the current mirror circuit over time is provided. A current mirror circuit that includes a first MOS transistor and a plurality of MOS transistors paired with the first MOS transistor, and a plurality of wiring layers formed on an upper layer of the MOS transistor are provided. The plurality of wiring layers are arranged such that wiring patterns have the same shape within a predetermined range from an end of a channel region of each of the first MOS transistor and the plurality of MOS transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Ikegaya, Takayuki Oshima, Yoichiro Kobayashi, Masato Kita, Keishi Komoriyama, Minoru Migita, Yu Kawagoe, Kiyotaka Kanno
  • Publication number: 20240294053
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle air conditioning system and a vehicle air conditioning method that increase heating performance while recovering exhaust heat from onboard equipment. The vehicle air conditioning system comprises: a refrigerant circuit; a heat medium circuit including a high-temperature medium circuit and a low-temperature medium circuit; an interior heat exchanger that exchanges heat between a heat medium and air; an exterior heat exchanger that exchanges heat between the heat medium and outside air; an exhaust heat recovery circuit; and a switching part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka TANABE, Takayuki KOBAYASHI, Tomoki HASE, Yasutaka AOKI, Hideaki TATENOI
  • Patent number: 12081088
    Abstract: An axial-gap-dynamoelectric machine includes resin bobbins having positioning protrusions, and a stator core including a base yoke having a plurality of tooth holes and positioning holes. In each tooth hole, a circumferential length of a tooth-hole-radial-direction-outer-end surface is larger than a circumferential length of a tooth-hole-radial-direction-inner-end surface. Each of the plurality of teeth has a columnar shape in which a circumferential length of a tooth-upper surface is larger than a circumferential length of a tooth-bottom surface. The positioning protrusions are inserted in the positioning holes, and press the teeth against the base yoke inward in the radial direction such that the tooth-bottom surface is brought into contact with the tooth-hole-radial-direction-inner-end surface and the tooth-oblique surface is brought into contact with the tooth-hole-circumferential-direction-end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Kobayashi, Hirotaka Kurita, Tatsuya Hagiwara, Takumi Sugimura
  • Patent number: 12072627
    Abstract: A resist composition containing: (A) a resin containing a repeating unit having an acid-labile group; (B) a photo-acid generator shown by a general formula (B-1); and (C) a solvent, where W1 represents a cyclic divalent hydrocarbon group having 4 to 12 carbon atoms and containing a heteroatom; W2 represents a cyclic monovalent hydrocarbon group having 4 to 14 carbon atoms and not containing a heteroatom; Rf represents a divalent organic group shown by the following general formula; and M+ represents an onium cation. This provides a resist composition and a patterning process that uses the resist composition that show a particularly favorable mask dimension dependency (mask error factor: MEF), LWR, and critical dimension uniformity (CDU) particularly in photolithography where a high-energy beam such as an ArF excimer laser beam is used as a light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teppei Adachi, Shinya Yamashita, Masaki Ohashi, Tomohiro Kobayashi, Kenichi Oikawa, Takayuki Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 12074489
    Abstract: An axial gap motor having a rotor and a stator core. A plurality of pressed powder teeth extends in a radial direction of the stator core and each has a trapezoidal shape in which a circumferential length of a pressed-powder-tooth-radial-direction-outer-end portion is larger than a circumferential length of a pressed-powder-tooth-radial-direction-inner-end portion. The rotor includes a plurality of field magnets, each configured such that a circumferential length of a magnet-radial-direction-inner-end portion is greater than or equal to a circumferential length of a magnet-radial-direction-outer-end portion. When the rotor and the stator core rotate relative to each other about a rotation axis, a part of the field magnets first overlaps with pressed-powder-tooth-radial-direction-inner portions of pressed powder teeth, and while the field magnets are located at a q-axis position with respect to the pressed powder teeth, adjacent ones of the field magnets individually overlap with one pressed powder tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Kobayashi, Hirotaka Kurita, Tatsuya Hagiwara, Takumi Sugimura
  • Patent number: 12067802
    Abstract: A highly convenient imaging device is provided. Alternatively, a highly reliable imaging device is provided. Alternatively, a highly convenient authentication device is provided. Alternatively, a highly reliable authentication device is provided. The imaging device includes a substrate, a pixel array, and an adhesive layer. The substrate has flexibility, the pixel array is positioned over a first surface of the substrate, and the adhesive layer is positioned on a second surface facing the first surface of the substrate. The pixel array includes a light-receiving element and a light-emitting element. The light-receiving element has a function of sensing infrared light and includes a first pixel electrode, an active layer, and a common electrode. The light-emitting element has a function of emitting infrared light and includes a second pixel electrode, a light-emitting layer, and the common electrode. The active layer is positioned over the first pixel electrode and contains a first organic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetomo Kobayashi, Takayuki Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20240272589
    Abstract: A time-to-digital converter circuit that measures a time difference between a first input signal and a second input signal includes: a jitter superimposition circuit that superimposes a jitter, which changes temporally, on one of the first input signal and the second input signal to generate a first intermediate signal and a second intermediate signal; a time-to-digital converter that measures a time difference between the first intermediate signal and the second intermediate signal each time the jitter changes; and a statistical processor that statistically processes a plurality of time differences measured by the time-to-digital converter in response to a plurality of jitters, and calculates a time difference between the first input signal and the second input signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Keno SATO, Tamotsu ICHIKAWA, Takashi ISHIDA, Toshiyuki OKAMOTO, Takayuki NAKATANI, Haruo KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 12060540
    Abstract: A detergent composition for metal product, which contains an amine (component A) represented by a general formula (I), a salt (component B?) of a dicarboxylic acid (component B) represented by a general formula (II): HOOC—R4—COOH (II) and the amine (component A), a salt (component C?) of a monocarboxylic acid (component C) represented by a general formula (III): R5—COOH (III) and the amine (component A), a nonionic surfactant (component D) represented by a general formula (IV): R6—O-{(EO)n/(PO)m}-H (IV), and water (component E) and has a pH of more than 7 and 10 or less. The detergent composition for metal product exhibits excellent detergency and metal corrosion suppressing performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignees: KAO CORPORATION, AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Naganuma, Takayuki Hisano, Takao Kobayashi
  • 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